Words including “class” and “spice bag” have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its latest update.
A number of new words including eight Hiberno-English/Irish-English words have been added to mark popular words and phrases.
The OED said it wanted to incorporate “loan words” – words that would be coined as “untranslatable” but are used with enough frequency by people who speak English alongside other languages that they have become part of “the vocabulary of their variety of English”.
The new additions for the first quarter of 2025 are from Ireland, southeast Asia and South Africa, BBC reported.
Full list of World English additions in the OED March 2025 update
Irish English
- blaa, n.
- class, adj.
- debs, n.
- ludraman, n.
- mineral, n.
- morto, adj.
- spice bag, n.
- to act the maggot, phrase in maggot, n./1
Malaysian English and Singapore English
- alamak, int.
- fish head curry, n.
- half-boiled egg, n.
- kaya, n.2
- kaya toast, n.
- ketupat, n.
- mat rempit, n.
- nasi lemak, n.
- otak-otak, n.
- steamboat, n.
- tapau, v.
- terror, adj.
Philippine English
- CR, n.
- gigil, n. and adj.
- kababayan, n.
- load, n.
- lumpia, n.
- Pinoy, adj. (adjective sense added to existing noun sense)
- salakot, n.
- sando, n.1
- terror, adj.
- Thomasite, n.2
- videoke, n.
