Source — "Hinglish vinglish: Oxford accepts jugaad" (2017)
- Title: "Hinglish vinglish: Oxford accepts jugaad"
- Publication: The Tribune (India)
- Date: 2017-10-04
- URL: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/life-style/hinglish-vinglish-oxford-accepts-jugaad-476764/
- Accessed: 2026-09-03
- Type: secondary (Indian national daily newspaper); neutral-to-celebratory stance toward Indian-English lexical recognition.
Extract
Reports that the Oxford English Dictionary added 45 Indian-origin words (out of 216 new words total) in its September 2017 update, jugaad among them. Gives OED's own reported definition: "a flexible approach to problem-solving that uses limited resources in an innovative way" — matching, word for word, the OED definition separately reported by WebSearch synthesis in sources/oed-jugaad-reported.md, a useful independent cross-check of that otherwise-unconfirmed material (though both are ultimately downstream of the same OED text, not two independent primary readings).
States that jugaad was added earlier still to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary in 2015, two years before the full OED's own 2017 addition — consistent with, and dating, this project's own directly-read Oxford Learner's entries (sources/oxfordlearnersdictionaries-jugaad.md), which carry no date themselves.
Framing: the article characterizes jugaad as India's distinctive methodology of "creating something out of anything 'by hook or by crook'" and situates the OED's move within a broader postcolonial discussion of Indian-origin English vocabulary, citing Indian politician and writer Shashi Tharoor's observations that words like "loot," "thug," "yoga," and "jungle" are already established English loanwords from Indian languages — directly relevant to this project's cultural-politics and popular-phenomenon tracks (the "recognition of Indian words" story running in parallel to, but distinct from, the "untranslatable words" listicle genre).
Gaps
- Does not itself independently verify the OED's claimed etymology or first-citation date; both outlets (this one and WebSearch) appear to draw on the same underlying OED press materials, not independent research.
- No named OED editor is quoted in this specific article (compare
sources/oed-jugaad-reported.md's note that OED's Danica Salazar was quoted, per a different search result, regarding the 2017 Indian-English batch generally).