What ‘cool beans’ and 50 other old-timey slang words mean by: Briana Luca Posted: Nov 12, 2022 / 09:00 AM HST Updated: Nov 11, 2022 / 03:00 PM HST Slang is a vital part of language.

From cheesy to cool, all other languages borrow these indispensable terms from English words!

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Brr, it’s cold in here! Here are seven common English terms to describe chillier temperatures.

The sheer clip at which English words rotate in and out of the vernacular has made it difficult for any statistic to accurately capture the scale of loanword creep.

The origins of these words could tell us a lot about our ancestors and the cognitive strategies they used to name the things around them.

Every generation likes to think it invented slang anew, but often the latest words are actually very old. Here are several words that have been around much longer than you might think.

Think twice before you use words like “lackaday” or “nonplussed”—they may mean something quite different than what you’d assume.

The new dictionary, which Gates said is heavily influenced by “words invented by African Americans,” will serve as an authoritative record of African-American English.