" Other variations of the phrase are beddie-ba, beddie-baa and beddy-ba'.

A CLASSIC Scots phrase meaning bed or sleep has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The term 'beddy-baw', which dates back to at least the 1860s, was added to the dictionary last month. It ...

The Oxford English Dictionary adds new words four times a year. This month, it's "gigil," an overwhelming need to squeeze ...

Lumpia” and “Gigil” are now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), leading a group of 11 Filipino words added in ...

Lumpia” and “Gigil” are now officially in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), leading a group of 11 Filipino words added in ...

Eleven Filipino words, including ‘Gigil’ and ‘Videoke,’ were added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its March 2025 update.

Eleven Filipino words were added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its March 2025 update. In a commentary posted on its website, the Oxford English Dictionary explained: “Often, when we talk about ...

More Filipino words have been added to the Oxford Dictionary!Described as the word that appears "regularly on lists of untranslatable words," gigil has been ...

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for ...

Gatvol? Sharp-sharp? The Oxford Dictionary just made South African slang official, and it’s about time.

Food names form the bulk of additions, but other notables include the Malay expression ‘alamak’ and a colloquial meaning for ...

Lacking a word for that sensation when something is so cute you just can't handle it? Missing that special term for the moron ...