New words for the term

Every week, the Macmillan dictionary team search the media to find out the newest and most interesting words being used in the English language, and you can find their ‘Word of the Week’ on the www.macmillandictionaries.com website. Thanks to lexicographer Kerry Maxwell and her compilation book Macmillan Words of the Year, we’ll be featuring a couple of these words each term to keep your vocabulary up to date. We will also include examples taken from a variety of print and electronic sources, illustrating how the words are used.

The words we have chosen for this term are:

Disemvowelling (n uncountable): 

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Smirting (n uncountable):

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