Masshole was just one of several words that now grace the pages of the dictionary. Other new additions include hot mess, twerk and fo' shizzle.

Masshole was added as a noun, first used in 1989. The definition reads: term of contempt for a native or inhabitant of the state of Massachusetts. This is what is known as a blended word, which Lewis Carroll called portmanteaus, naming them after a suitcase that unfolds into two equal parts.

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