Oof, Y'all, Dictionary.com Just Added Over 300 New Words And Definitions

[Jilly_in_VA]

While some of them might be enough to make you say "oof," the over 300 new words and definitions added to Dictionary.com during its most recent round of updates reflect the realities of our rapidly changing world.

Words that have been popularized by the coronavirus pandemic, technological advances and racial reckoning across the U.S. are now on the popular dictionary website, which is based on the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

"The latest update to our dictionary continues to mirror the world around us," said John Kelly, Dictionary.com's managing editor. "It's a complicated and challenging society we live in, and language changes to help us grapple with it."

After more than a year of online and hybrid learning, students are likely familiar — maybe too familiar — with two of the additions: definitions of "asynchronous" and "synchronous."

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/1016901447/oof-yall-dictionary-com-just-added-over-300-new-words-and-definitions
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As a lifelong lover of words, this one caught my eye. I have to admit that I have not heard some of them, though.

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. An interesting movie..the creation of the first edition of the English Oxford

Dictionary..Mid-19th Century, The Professor and the Madman..very well portrayed by Mel Gibson, and, although over the top, but brilliant acting by none other than Sean Penn...(Netflix)

Thanks for the link..and "oof"..

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Or maybe

in Upper Midwestern, "Uff da"? (We all collapsed in laughter when my Minnesota-raised SIL let that one fly in our Tennessee home--jus so unexpected, although I'd grown up on it!)

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. My husbands granny would smack him up side the head when he would

say something stupid - she said, "OOFA, Bobby"..nice little Italian lady..

Years ago, he went on to selling T-shirts as hobby using OOFA....many road trips, swap meets etc..at the venues..upper Midwestern..MN in particular always asked him "where is the T"or "D"...I enjoyed the road trips - but not the expense of his (stupid) venture.."OOFA Bobby"

[musette_sf]

2. "Oof" has been in my vocabulary

since Walter Monheit’s Blurb-O-Mat in SPY Magazine.

https://www.vulture.com/2011/04/digging-into-the-archives-of-spy.html

[Sgent]

5. Interesting

Ya'll is now a word according to them, not just a southern contraction.

Also, how was synchronous and asynchronous not already words? They both are heavily used in computer science and have been for decades.

[abqtommy]

6. Is "oof" the root word of "oofta"? I love this stuff. It's apparent that there's lots of room in

the English language for words that originate in many other languages.

oofta
oofta is the correct spelling of the word too often misspelled as uff-da or oofda(although others would disagree). It is an expression used to convey surprise, exhaustion, or a bunch of other feelings a Norwegian may have.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=oofta

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. Maybe the Urban Dictionary says so

but I differ, being from Wisconsin where the pronunciation was firmly with a D. I used to have a coffee mug with a fierce little Viking on it (think Hagar the Horrible) shouting "Uff Da!"

[abqtommy]

8. I support your right to differ. Language is made for communicating, not as a purity test.