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flag The OED adds "gigil," a Filipino term for the urge to squeeze something cute, expanding its global vocabulary.

flag The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added "gigil," a Filipino term describing the urge to pinch or squeeze something very cute. flag This word joins others like "alamak" from Singapore and Malaysia, meaning surprise or outrage, and "videoke," a local karaoke variant. flag The OED, containing over 600,000 words, regularly adds untranslatable words from various languages to fill lexical gaps in English.

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