“OH MY GAWWWDDDDD,” tweeted comics writer G. Willow Wilson today, at the announcement that Merriam-Webster had added “embiggen” to its dictionary of the English language, “I’m so floored even my ...

"Embiggens?" says teacher Edna Krabappel during the episode, "Lisa the Iconoclast." "I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield." "I don't know why," responds fellow teacher Elizabeth ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Merriam-Webster added the word "embiggen" to its pages on Monday, the dictionary giant announced, ...

Pop culture plays a huge part in the process of transforming made up, nonsensical words into perfectly acceptable parts of the lexicon. Today, Merriam-Webster announced via Twitter that “embiggen”—a ...

The word is 'embiggen'... but who said it and how on earth has it made it into the dictionary 22 years later? MERRIAM-Webster raised a few eyebrows when it added a made up word from a 22-year-old ...

Though the word has transcended its animated town origins, being regularly used by online outlets (“click to embiggen this map”) and superhero Kamala Khan in the Ms. Marvel comic book series, its ...

The publisher added 850 new words, the Greek yogurt sauce tzatziki, the popular term for disaster “dumpster fire,” and “mansplain” in addition to the term “embiggen.” In a tweet announcing the ...

Ever since about 1996, grammatical sticklers are fought against the runaway freight train-esque popularity of “embiggen”—a perfectly cromulent word made famous by The Simpsons that was technically not ...

The word first appeared as a joke in a 1996 episode of "The Simpsons," but has since been used in other contexts. Merriam-Webster added the word "embiggen" to its pages on Monday, the dictionary giant ...

MERRIAM-Webster raised a few eyebrows when it added a made up word from a 22-year-old Simpsons episode to the dictionary. We’re sure you’re very curious about what it is and, more importantly, who ...