Except when they put in words which few people if anyone actually uses, like "idea hamster".
Covering all contingencies, I guess. WTF is an "idea hamster"?
A figment of your imagination that says "have we got a video!?"
WIRED said it's someone at work (or wherever) who just keeps coming up with ideas. Or what corporate types call "a creative".
My point is that some of the words there seem rather suspect, and it seems like the lexicographers are pulling an Eric S. Raymond and trying to pass their own pet coinages off as popular usage.
I wonder how long until "doovy" or "pfaknok" appears in the OED.
What about adding the following for pillow?
v. to pillow - to perform in a manner which is deemed indadequate and lacking in character, or soft (cf.).
In the years before they won the premiership, we used to refer to the Crows as the Tontine Pillows, because they were guaranteed to pillow.
When 50 Cent starts using the word "bootywhang", my work on this planet will have been done.
Are you sure George Clinton or Bootsy Collins hasn't already used it?
i like bootywhang, what a mega word.
Don't we all?
Re: your first sentence, the dictionaries wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't. English isn't French, you know...