Merriam-Webster added the word "embiggen" to its pages on Monday, 22 years after it was coined for an episode of "The Simpsons." ...

“OH MY GAWWWDDDDD,” tweeted comics writer G. Willow Wilson today, at the announcement that Merriam-Webster had added “embiggen” to its dictionary of the English language, “I’m so floored even my ...

The Simpsons episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” aired during season seven of the show that’s now been renewed for seasons 33 and 34, which will take it to (at least) an unbelievable 750 episodes. Almost ...

“Embiggens?” says teacher Edna Krabappel during the episode, “Lisa the Iconoclast.” “I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.” “I don’t know why,” responds fellow teacher Elizabeth ...

Pop culture plays a huge part in the process of transforming made up, nonsensical words into perfectly acceptable parts of the lexicon. Today, Merriam-Webster announced via Twitter that “embiggen”—a ...

Here is your word for the day: Embiggen. Let's use it in a sentence. "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Congratulations. You've just used one of the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has added ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Simpsons writers are uncannily good at predicting events that have happened years after ...

The official dictionary is a partnership with Merriam-Webster, which updates their own dictionary every year. The Scrabble dictionary team hadn’t put together a refresher since 2018, leading to this ...

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