w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word 422
Jay writes "The word has been getting out apparently. No longer just a word for gamers, 'woot' now appears as #3 in Merriam-Webster's What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)? contest. It was beaten out by ginormous and confuzzled."
Re:slashdot's favorite non-word (Score:1, Informative)
Re:What about Fugly (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:If w00t made the list then... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:The nature of dictionaries (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Woot; the acronym. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:How about... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:woot == excitement? :-\ (Score:4, Informative)
See the Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org].
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Informative)
Google says... (Score:2, Informative)
1. woot 618,000
2. ginormous 93,100 Did you mean: enormous
3. confuzzled 65,400
4. chillax 24,500
5. snirt 7,900
6. lingweenie 7,790
7. gription 4,410
8. slickery 772
9. "cognitive displaysia" 254
10. phonecrastinate 221
Define...
Definitions of woot on the Web:
# The term w00t is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first person shooters), IRC chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web in the form of weblogs or in forums is by no means uncommon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot
No definitions were found for confuzzled, cognitive displaysia, chillax, snirt, lingweenie, gription, slickery or phonecrastinate.
n00b != newbie (Score:1, Informative)
It's derived from newbie but it's a different word with different connotations.
Newbies ask for help. N00bs demand it. Very different thing. :)
Re:Confuzzled? (Score:3, Informative)
Apparantly most people pronounce it like 'puzzled' just swapping the 'p' for a 'con', but I always pronounced it as confoozled. For what it's worth I'm from New York. Seems to be mostly a US usage.
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