The term is included in the most recent edition of the Chambers Dictionary.
The term was also one of the new entrants into the Chambers Dictionary in 2008, along with words like electrosmog, carbon footprint, credit crunch and social networking.
The latest edition of the Chambers Dictionary includes symptoms of contemporary worries, such as "double-dip" and "toxic assets".
Special instructions: The Chambers Dictionary (2011) is recommended.
Chambers Dictionary describes the etymology of the word as "dubious".
The Chambers Dictionary defines it as "a means by which a questioner pretends to know less than a respondent, when actually he knows more".
Chambers Dictionary defines cryptogams as a 'class of flowerless plants so named by Linnaeus in the expectation that sexual reproduction would one day be discovered'.
Any word that appears in the Chambers Dictionary is allowed.
Enjoy some creative insults from the Chambers Dictionary.
Chambers Dictionary of Science and Technology.