If you are going to ask, ask straight away, as soon as you’ve heard the word you can’t fathom. Too often I have waited until my lingering puzzlement over a word has distracted me from properly hearing ...

The Ukrainian word "suka" — like the English word "b****" — means "female dog," and can also be a general expletive.

The word Halcyon has an intriguing origin rooted in Greek mythology. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term ...

But while I’m away, I thought you might enjoy learning about the history of and some notable historical figures in our usual ...

Social media users claimed that the word "freelance" comes from a term for a mercenary warrior. "A literal free lance," one X ...

I’ve been a professional journalist for 43 years, but that doesn’t mean I can spell a lot of fairly common words correctly.

“Tubular” was another slang term that came from surf culture. It originally described the shape of a wave, but it eventually became a general way to say something was cool or exciting. By the ‘80s, it ...

The idealistic team behind Jikipedia, an online dictionary of Chinese internet slang, shares the highs and lows of creating a pop culture phenomenon.

To see which definitions people are looking up in each country, the language site Wordtips gathered Google search volume data ...

New words are constantly being added to the dictionary, and some definitions even shift over ... defaulting to English when English queries were more popular than the country’s native language.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word has now come to mean an expression of excitement or ” wonderful.” It can also be commonly used as a shortened adjective, supercalifragilistic or as ...

“It makes me mad when people say ‘literally’ when they mean ... uses the word “literally” in this definition undermines their point, but virtually every other dictionary agrees ...