YAY! "Eeyorish" is now an actual word! (and Muppet too) (ODE)

'Muppet,' 'Eeyorish' Join Oxford Lexicon



LONDON -- Are you feeling like a "muppet" because you cannot remember the meaning of a word? Or are you a bit "Eeyorish" and confused at our rapidly changing language? Those are among 3,000 new words and expressions, many of them slang or foreign, that have entered English usage and are included in the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, which is being released Thursday.

"Muppet," taken from the children's TV show, "Sesame Street," means a foolish person, while "Eeyorish" refers to the character in Winnie the Pooh known for his gloomy outlook on life.

Unsurprisingly, many new entries come from the world of science and high-tech, particularly genetics and the Internet. Thus "blog" (short for Web log), and "egosurfing" (searching the Internet for references to oneself) are joined in the dictionary by more unusual phrases such as "shotgun cloning" (the insertion of random fragments of DNA).

New words included in the dictionary often reflect trends and the changing cultural makeup of the United Kingdom.

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http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-britain-dictionary,0,7751027.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines





"Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it" "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush." "Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What mulberry bush is that?" "Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word for meaning bonhommy," he explained. "I'm not complaining, but There It Is."

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I can promise each and every one of you out there that as a fan of Eeyore I plan on using the word as often as I can until everyone is sick of it...and then some.

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