New words list December 2013

List of new word entries

In addition to revised versions of Second Edition entries, these ranges contain the following new entries:

New words
New sub-entries
New senses

New word entries

• à la bourgeoise, adj. (and adv.)
• absolute discharge, n.
• ambulette, n.
• Apennine, n. and adj.
• aplitic, adj.
• aplome, n.
• Aspie, n. and adj.
• Ba, n.1
• badassery, n.
• baryonium, n.
• Be, n.
• beauty parade, n.
• beauty, adj. and int.
• Bh, n.
• Bi, n.1
• Bk, n.2
• booshway, n.
• bosonic, adj.
• bourgeoise, n.1
• Bourguignon, n. and adj.
• Bourguignonne, n.
• Br, n.
• buff, adj.2
• buffed, adj.2
• bureau de change, n.
• bureau plat, n.
• bureaucratese, n.
• Burgess, n.2
• calamitic, adj.
• carnitas, n.
• chica, n.2
• Childline, n.
• cocoa cake, n.
• colore officii, adv.
• cramdown, n.
• cravatting, n.
• cream pie, n.
• credentialism, n.
• dap, n.3
• darmstadtium, n.
• Db, n.
• Di, n.
• diplogen, n.
• disc file, n.2
• disc, adj.
• discardable, adj.
• discectomy, n.
• discerptor, n.
• dischargement, n.
• disclination, n.
• discloistering, n.
• disclosable, adj.
• disclosive, adj.
• disclusion, n.2
• Discman, n.
• disco, n.2
• discofied, adj.
• discographic, adj.
• discolourize | discolorize, v.
• discommoning, n.
• discommonizing, n.
• discomposing, n.
• discomycete, n.
• disconceit, n.
• disconfirmatory, adj.
• disconformed, adj.
• disconnecting, adj.
• discordious, adj.
• discotic, adj.
• discount rate, n.
• discoupling, n.
• discoursal, adj.
• discoverture, n.1
• discreditation, n.
• discrimen, n.
• discriminandum, n.
• disocclude, v.
• disocclusion, n.
• Ds, n.
• Dy, n.1
• embarras de choix, n.
• emoji, n.
• Er, n.
• Es, n.2
• Eu, n.
• eutopian, adj. and n.
• fair green, n.1
• fair green, n.2
• fair trade, v.
• fair trading, n.
• fair-traded, adj.
• fairwater, n.1
• fairy chess, n.
• familiarizing, n.
• family court, n.
• family medicine, n.
• family silver, n.
• familyhood, n.
• family-style, adj. and adv.
• Fe, n. fermionic, adj.
• Fm, n.
• Fr, n.
• general discharge, n.
• gracilization, n.
• gravitino, n.
• guac, n.
• Ha, n.4
• hap, n.3
• hapa haole, n. and adj.
• hapa, adv., adj.,  and n.
• hapaxanthic, adj.
• haplochromine, adj. and n.
• haploidization, n.
• haplotypic, adj.
• happy slap, n.
• happy slap, v.
• happy slapper, n.
• happy slapping, n.
• happy-slappy, adj.
• He, n.2
• Hf, n.
• Hg, n.
• Higgs, n.
• His, n.
• Ho, n.5
• house-made, adj.
• Hs, n.
• Ile, n.2
• In, n.2
• Ir, n.
• jousten, v.
• Judaica, n.
• juddery, adj.
• Judezmo, n.
• judge and
• jury, n.
• judgementalism | judgmentalism, n.
• judicare, n.
• Judo-, comb._form Justinian, n.
• Justinianic, adj.
• kludgy, adj.
• Kr, n.
• Ku, n.
• La, n.2
• Leu, n.2
• Li, n.6
• Ln, n.
• Lr, n.
• Lu, n.2
• Lw, n.
• Lys, n.
• michelada, n.
• oojamaflip, n.
• pig bank, n.
• Sa, n.2
• satirization, n.
• satirizing, n.
• Sb, n.
• Sc, n.2
• Se, n.1
• Ser, n.2
• Sg, n.
• Si, n.2
• Silly String, n.
• sillytonian, n.
• Sm, n.
• Sn, n.
• Sr, n.1
• Ta, n.
• Tb, n.
• Tc, n.
• Te, n.1
• Th, n.2
• Thr, n.
• Ti, n.1
• Tl, n.
• Tm, n.
• Trp, n.
• Tyr, n.
• umbrellar, adj.
• utopian socialism, n.
• utopian socialist, n. and adj.
• utopic, adj.
• utopographer, n.
• vacay, n.
• Val, n.2
• virtualize, v.
• virtuecrat, n.
• virtuoso-mastix, n.
• virtus dormitiva, n.
• whack-a-mole, n.
• wino, n.2
• Yb, n.
• zino, n.
• Zn, n.
• Zr, n.

New sub-entries

• American beautyberry
• athlete’s heart
• athletic supporter
• athletics club
• athletics track
• b
• b
• Balkan League
• Balkan peninsula
• baryon number
• baryonic number
• bcc
• BDNF
• beat-match
• beat-matching
• beauty bush
• beauty contestant
• beauty patch
• beauty product
• beauty therapist
• beauty therapy
• beauty water
• beautyberry
• bird’s-nest fungus
• BMR
• Bosnian Croat
• Bosnian Muslim
• Bosnian Serb
• BP
• bp
• bp
• brake disc
• brake pad
• brown powder
• bureau agent
• bureau bedstead
• bureau chief
• bureau director
• Bureau of Indian Affairs
• bureau of investigation
• bureau official
• bureau staff
• bureaucracy-loving
• bureaucracy-ridden
• Burgess Shale
• Burgess Shale fauna
• Burgess Shale fossil
• BW
• BWR
• Bz
• Bz
• cacao fruit
• cacao nib
• cacao pod
• cattle fair
• Chacoan fairy armadillo
• child abuser
• child actor
• child actress
• child development
• child labour
• child labourer
• child language
• child lock
• child offender
• child poverty
• child prodigy
• child prostitution
• child protection
• child psychiatrist
• child psychiatry
• child seat
• child slavery
• child soldier
• child support
• child trafficking
• child worker
• child-friendliness
• child-friendly
• child-geared
• childhood sweetheart
• child-rearing
• children’s book
• children’s hospital
• Children’s Laureate
• children’s literature
• children’s menu
• children’s rights
• child-size
• child-sized
• child-young
• chilling effect
• clutch hitter
• coco peat
• cocoa house
• cocoa liquor
• cocoa mass
• cocoa paste
• cocoa pod
• cocoa press
• cocoa solids
• cocoa walk
• coconut crab
• coconut cream
• coconut flesh
• coconut grove
• coconut husk
• coconut meat
• coconut palm
• coconut plantation
• coir compost
• composite flower
• constructive discharge
• constructive dismissal
• corolla tube
• cravat scarf
• crossfader
• D
• dead evil
• discriminably
• discriminativeness
• discriminatorily
• disc cutting
• disc galaxy
• disc memory
• disc recording
• disc sander
• disc space
• discal cell
• discard pile
• discerning of spirits
• discernment of spirits
• discharge lamp
• disco nap
• discomfort glare
• discomfort index
• discomfort zone
• disconnecting engine
• discotheque dress
• discount broker
• discount card
• discount day
• discount factor
• discouraged worker
• discouraged-looking
• discourse analyst
• discourse community
• discourse marker
• discourse theory
• discovery procedure
• discrete device
• discretionary trust
• discriminant analysis
• discriminating monopoly
• discrimination learning
• discus throw
• discus thrower
• discus throwing
• discussion board
• discussion forum
• discussion panel
• discussion session
• discussion thread
• discussion topic
• E
• E
• fairy-tale-like
• easy-virtued
• EMF
• disconfirmable
• fair-mindedly
• virtuosically
• fair ball
• fair catch
• fair comment
• fair cow
• fair folk
• fair lady
• fair share
• fair trade
• law fair use
• faired
• fair-handed
• fairies’ bonnet
• fairness doctrine
• fairness opinion
• fair-shaped
• fair-waisted
• fairy armadillo
• fairy basslet
• fairy floss
• fairy gift
• fairy grotto
• fairy king
• fairy knight
• fairy palace
• fairy primrose
• fairy princess
• fairy problem
• fairy ring agaric
• fairy wand
• fairy wing
• fairy wren
• fairy-tale ending
• fairy-tale prince
• fairy-tale princess
• fall from grace
• familiar name
• family cap
• family car
• family care
• family centre
• family division
• family fortune
• family friend
• family home
• family hour
• family house
• family income supplement
• family leave
• family line
• family member
• family of man
• family of mankind
• family of nations
• family physician
• family practice
• family romance
• family service
• family tie
• family-friendly
• FOB
• gcd
• grace period
• grace under pressure
• graceful degradation
• graceful-looking
• greater (also Chacoan) fairy armadillo
• greater fairy armadillo
• greige goods
• haplogroup
• haploinsufficiency
• happily married
• happy couple
• happy face
• happy hardcore
• happy place
• happy talk
• happy valley
• happy-sad
• Higgs phenomenon
• Horatian satire
• Judas candle
• Judas light
• Judas’s ear
• judder bar
• judding
• judge of probate
• judge-led
• judicial factory
• judicial inquiry
• judicial killing
• judicial trustee
• judiciary committee
• judicialization
• just intonation
• justice department
• justice minister
• justice system
• Juvenalian satire
• lapse from grace
• lesser (also pink) fairy armadillo
• lesser fairy armadillo
• line defect
• LUMO
• peninsula of the Balkan
• pink fairy armadillo
• scarlet cup
• scarlet cup mushroom
• Serbian spruce
• silly money
• sleep training
• sleep-train
• STM
• summer fair
• tau crosier
• tau neutrino
• TBT
• TIA
• to have (or do, etc.) one’s fair share
• TSS
• vicious cycle
• virtual address
• virtual corporation
• virtual private network
• virtual representation
• virtue ethics
• virtuous cycle
• virtuous spiral

New senses

• clutch, n.1
• clutch, n.1
• columnar, adj.
• deck, n.1
• few, adj.
• fruit, n.
• hair, n.
• lark | laverock, n.1
• sequester, n.2
• sequestration, n.
• tree, n.
• trick, n.
• turntable, n.
• wait, v.1
• wheel-house, n.