Euronews — "Gigil or a ludraman? How well do you know these new words added to the dictionary"
- Author: David Mouriquand
- Publication: Euronews (Culture)
- Date: 2025-03-27
- URL: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/03/27/gigil-or-a-ludraman-how-well-do-you-know-these-new-words-added-to-the-dictionary
- Type: secondary (pan-European news outlet reporting a dictionary-publisher announcement, in a light/quiz-style register); neutral stance
- Accessed: 2026-09-04
Extract
- Confirms gigil (Tagalog/Philippine English) among the March 2025 OED additions, glossed: "feeling caused by anger, eagerness, or the pleasure of seeing someone or something cute," with physical manifestations (hand clenching, teeth gritting).
- Lists several of the same batch's other new entries by name: alamak (Singapore/Malaysia English exclamation), ludraman ("lazy, unproductive or stupid person," Irish English), spice bag (Irish English takeaway dish), moggy (South African English, "extremely irrational person... out of touch with reality"), sharp-sharp (South African English greeting/compliment), morto (Irish English, "mortification or extreme embarrassment"), class (Irish English, general approval term).
- Does not mention komorebi at all — this project's direct fetch of this specific article found no reference to the Japanese word, in contrast to the general "lexical gap" example given in a different outlet's coverage (see
nbcnews-2025-gigil-oed.md's Gaps section). Recorded here as a data point against treating komorebi as confirmed part of this dictionary-update news cycle's actual new-headword list.
Gaps
- No OED editor/linguist quote.
- Does not give a first-attestation date for gigil (contrast the 1990 date reported by other outlets).