It’s 2018, So Of Course Merriam-Webster Added ‘Dumpster Fire’ To Its Dictionary

Now when a man mansplains what the word “mansplain” means, he can do it with an added air of arrogance — because it just became an official word.

The verb, meaning “to explain something to a woman in a condescending way that assumes she has no knowledge about the topic,” was among 850 new words Merriam-Webster added to its dictionary, the publisher announced Monday.

Other new words Merriam-Webster added to “embiggen” (meaning to enlarge or expand, reportedly derived from “The Simpsons”) our collective language include “self-care” (“health care provided by oneself often without the consultation of a medical professional”) and “dumpster fire” (“an utterly calamitous or mismanaged situation or occurrence”).


Source : huffingtonpost