They include zyzzyva, a genus of tropical weevil native to South America. The word replaces zythum - an ancient Egyptian malt beer - as the OED's final entry.
A protester wearing a Theresa May mask."Brexit" itself also made it into the dictionary last year.Eating a tasty meal with chana dal or doenjang, washed down with a gin daisy, could well foster a nice feeling of hygge. Just hope you don’t find any zyzzyva on your plate.
The name was apparently coined by the US entomologist Thomas Lincoln Casey, who described the bugs in a 1922 work, the OED said. "Brexit" itself also made it into the dictionary last year, meeting the OED's criterion that a new word, phrase or sense of a word must have featured in a variety of printed sources over several years.
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