Googling Now Official
Google (Transitive Verb): To use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web.
Merriam-Webster on Thursday stamped its approval on 100 new words that will appear in its next dictionary update, including the technology-related “google,” “spyware,” and “mouse potato.”
Mouse potato? Hehe. That’s a great word! Apparently it means “a person who spends a great deal of time using a computer“, so I guess that means most of my readers including myself are mouse potatos :)
The words will show in the 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which will be available this fall in bookstores everywhere.
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Comments / What do you think?
July 10th, 2006
Mouse-Potato… never heard that expression before, but I guess I’m one too.
July 13th, 2006
I’m definitely a mouse-potato! ;)