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I read in the paper the other day that Webster's Dictionary is adding the word "google" to the newest edition. It will be a verb as in "to google" . It was a brief blurb I read, and I don't think they mentioned what the definition would be, but I guess we can figure it out.

Marie5656 wrote: I read in the paper the other day that Webster's Dictionary is adding the word "google" to the newest edition. It will be a verb as in "to google" . It was a brief blurb I read, and I don't think they mentioned what the definition would be, but I guess we can figure it out.


we could always "google" the definition... hehehe I could not resist that.

It's been in the Oxford English Dictionary for a while now - here's the two senses of the verb "to google" there:

intr. Of the ball: to have a ‘googly’ break and swerve. Of the bowler; to bowl a googly or googlies; also (trans.), to give a googly break to (a ball). Hence {sm}googler, a googly bowler.

1907 Badminton Mag. Sept. 289 The googlies that do not google. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 7/4 Mr. Lockhart, having ‘googled’ to no purpose from the ‘nursery’ end. 1923 Daily Mail 9 July 11 In R. H. Bettington they have a googler who might triumph over the best of wickets. 1928 Daily Tel. 12 June 19/2 Constantine..was out to a semi-yorker, which also ‘googled’. 1930 Ibid. 25 Apr. 8/5 Grimmett..can spin the ball and google it.



1. intr. To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet.

1999 Re: Hi Guys! in alt.fan.british-accent (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Oct., Has anyone Googled? www.google.com Ver ver [sic] clean and fast. 2003 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 14 Sept. (Seven Days section) 7/3 You can google all you want and there's nothing there on them. 2004 U.S. News & World Report 14 June 49/2 The couple found themselves Googling for a new place to live.

2. trans. To search for information about (a person or thing) using the Google search engine.

2000 Re: $Emergency_Number in NYC in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Jan., I've googled some keywords, and it came up with some other .edu text. 2001 N.Y. Times 11 Mar. III. 12/3, I met this woman last night at a party and I came right home and googled her. 2005 ‘BELLE DE JOUR’ Intimate Adventures of London Call Girl 115 Obsessing over the details, including Googling his name every few hours? Too right I did.

minks wrote: we could always "google" the definition... hehehe I could not resist that.
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Reminds me...

has "aint" made it in the dictionary yet?

its used alot

K.Snyder wrote: Reminds me...

has "aint" made it in the dictionary yet?

its used alot


If it isn't K..you're right, it should be.

I was always told ain't ain't a word. :rolleyes:

Ain't in its first meaning below is surprisingly high-class in England - this from the OED again...

ain't, v. dial. and colloq.

[A contracted form of are not (see AN'T), used also for am not, is not, in the pop. dialect of London and elsewhere; hence in representations of Cockney speech in Dickens, etc.,and subsequently in general informal use. The contraction is also found as a (somewhat outmoded) upper-class colloquialism. Cf. won't, don't, can't, shan't.] - as in 1919 MENCKEN Amer. Lang. 146 Ain't is already tolerably respectable in the first person..‘ain't I in this?’

ain't, v. dial. and vulg. var. hain't, have not, has not. - as in 1884 ‘MARK TWAIN’ Huck. Finn. xxxv. 360 He ain't had no experience.

Seems Oxford has it all over Webster, then. Interesting.

I'm sure they serve different audiences in different markets.

spot wrote: I'm sure they serve different audiences in different markets.


I agree, but this brings to mind a thought, since you seem to have some knowledge. I wonder if the actuall definitions ever differ between the two books. Not the wording, but the definitions. I may need to investigate this on my own some time.