Gigil, alamak among new words in Oxford English Dictionary
Source: BBC
Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming cuteness, like your baby nephew or the cat video you saw on Instagram? There's now a word for it: gigil. Gigil (pronounced ghee-gill) is part of a list of "untranslatable" words, or those that do not have English equivalents, that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary..Taken from the Philippines' Tagalog language, gigil is a "feeling so…
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