Scores of new ‘awesomesauce’ words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online

Scores of new ‘awesomesauce’ words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online
Scores of new ‘awesomesauce’ words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online

Scores of new ‘awesomesauce’ words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online

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“My fur baby is my best bruh. He’s awesome-sauce.” Does that sentence make any sense to you? To some, yes. Others may be scratching their heads trying to decipher what it means. But now, you can look these words up in a dictionary. Fur baby, bruh, awesome-sauce, wine-thirty, and manspreading are just some of the words recently added to Oxford Dictionaries Online. So what does it mean when words like those suddenly find themselves in a dictionary and who decides? Katherine Martin, head of U-S Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, breaks it down for us. (Flickr/