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Posted By: Jackie meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/04/11 06:33 PM
The list of a buncha new words added to the Oxford Online Dictionary is out (gee, I wonder if buncha will make it next year? crazy ):

NSFW
Posted By: goofy Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/04/11 07:58 PM
The latest update to the OED Online was in March. Not all of these words were added. A quick search in the OED Online for some of these words gets no entries for NSFW, overshare, permalink, unfollow, man flu, insidery.

"buncha" doesn't have an entry, but it is in a few of the citations.
Posted By: Candy Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/04/11 11:57 PM
tis the season for man flu again wink
Posted By: Faldage Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/05/11 11:20 AM
Kittens do not peep and baby chicks do not meep. OK?
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/05/11 02:59 PM
Originally Posted By: Candy
tis the season for man flu again wink



--speaking from a medical viewpoint???
Posted By: Jackie Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/05/11 11:21 PM
Kittens do not peep and baby chicks do not meep. OK? Em--my use of peeps was a possibly-too-subtle reference back to a couple or so years ago when peeps made it into the dictionary. Nothing to do with meeps.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/06/11 01:46 AM
It's the kittens that meep according to the list.
Posted By: Faldage Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/06/11 01:56 AM
Originally Posted By: Jackie
Kittens do not peep and baby chicks do not meep. OK? Em--my use of peeps was a possibly-too-subtle reference back to a couple or so years ago when peeps made it into the dictionary. Nothing to do with meeps.

I'm sorry if I read your subject line to imply that peeps was out and had been replaced by meeps. To make matters worse I was reading peeps in its sense as a shortening of people.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/06/11 02:53 AM
Originally Posted By: Faldage
Kittens do not peep and baby chicks do not meep. OK?


What about adult chicks? whistle

Is meep derived from the sound of The Road Runner?
Posted By: Faldage Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/06/11 09:47 AM
Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
Originally Posted By: Faldage
Kittens do not peep and baby chicks do not meep. OK?


What about adult chicks? whistle

Is meep derived from the sound of The Road Runner?


A) Baby chicks is as opposed to adolescent chicks. There are no adult chicks, Mr. Smartyboots. And if there were they wouldn't meep either; they would cluck.

2) Some think, yes, meep is derived from the sound of the Road Runner. Others think it is echoic and was only popularized by the Road Runner.
Posted By: tsuwm Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/06/11 10:55 AM
>Road Runner meeping

“Then, just as he was about to creep back from that detestable flame, he saw a stirring among the vague dark forms and heard a peculiar and unmistakable sound. It was the frightened meeping of a ghoul, and in a moment it had swelled to a veritable chorus of anguish.” [EA]
– H P Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, 1927.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/06/11 11:00 AM
Oo, excellent! I don't believe I've ever encountered smartyboots before, and earned it, too.
Posted By: Jackie Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/07/11 02:36 AM
“Then, just as he was about to creep back from that detestable flame, he saw a stirring among the vague dark forms and heard a peculiar and unmistakable sound. It was the frightened meeping of a ghoul, and in a moment it had swelled to a veritable chorus of anguish.”
Shiver! I haven't read him for a long time, but I remember that he was very good.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: meeps not peeps (any more) - 06/07/11 03:32 PM
I like that too: "meeping of a ghoul", especially in light of
all the vampire TV shows and movies. Sometimes the oldsters
were better, left it to your imagination.
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