A medley of new words have been added to the online Oxford Dictionary, with braggadocious advances in technology boosting our burgeoning lexicon.

‘Tweetable’ has been added to the quarterly update this February as well as ‘social sharing’ and ‘dumbphone’, the latter being the brick-like elder of a shiny new smartphone.

Other new words added include ‘touchless’, an adjective reserved for devices activated things like voice control as well as ‘cruft’, a fantastic addition to the dictionary, which refers to all “badly designed or unnecessarily complicated” codes or software. More >>