STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. The Oxford English Dictionary added new words, including snowflake.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: That's not a new word.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's right here on the list.</s>RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Not a new word - billions fall in snowstorms.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: New meaning - snowflake once meant snowflake, then a unique person with potential. Now it's commonly an insult meaning someone who's overly sensitive, thinks they're special. Kind of an ugly term, really, but, you know, it also just means snowflake, snowflake. It's MORNING EDITION.
The Oxford English Dictionary has added more than 1,000 new words, including "snowflake." It's not a new word, but has a new other meaning: someone who is "overly sensitive" and "entitled."