Wiktionary is part of the same project as Wikipedia. It provides dictionary-style definitions for basically all slang terms whereas Urban Dictionary is actually terrible if you want to find the meaning of words because half the definitions are jokes while the other half define slang in terms of other slang.
Yep, ‘watermelon sugar’ is still a disputed hellhole and I feel like the UD editors make it worse by approving everything there to drive up engagement.
There’s so much clear editorialization of terms that legitimate definitions are flooded out for what’s trending at the time, so nothing is up to date, the editors scrape by for engagement, and its not useful anymore.
Unless that dictionary is Wiktionary.
Wiktionary is part of the same project as Wikipedia. It provides dictionary-style definitions for basically all slang terms whereas Urban Dictionary is actually terrible if you want to find the meaning of words because half the definitions are jokes while the other half define slang in terms of other slang.
It’s also great for etymology! Obviously etymonline is my go-to for English, but Wiktionary has plenty of info on other languages.
Yep, ‘watermelon sugar’ is still a disputed hellhole and I feel like the UD editors make it worse by approving everything there to drive up engagement.
There’s so much clear editorialization of terms that legitimate definitions are flooded out for what’s trending at the time, so nothing is up to date, the editors scrape by for engagement, and its not useful anymore.