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Here at DCist, we’re admitted word geeks — so whenever an organization tries to give us some new words to tool around with, we get kind of exciting. (Call blogging nothing more than roustabouting, and we’ll have words, you hear?) So, you can imagine our excitement at the publication of the centenary edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, which has added 400 words to its orthographic stable.

As opposed to its big brother, the Concise OED is often the landing point for slang which hasn’t quite got the stripes to cut it in the big leagues. That’s why you’ll see words popular with the network news set — “sexting,” “cyberbullying,” and “domestic goddess,” for example — included in this year’s update. Even so, there isn’t room for everything, explains editor Angus Stevenson:

Sadly, the new edition has no room for tremendous words like brabble ‘paltry noisy quarrel’ and growlery ‘place to growl in, private room, den’ – what we might call a man cave these days. But the preoccupations of today’s Generation Y have opened the door to some equally colourful vocabulary – how about momo, noob, nurdle, and woot?

So, just to clarify: “woot” is now in the dictionary. It’s a good day, people.