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A dictionary is more useful than Urban Dictionary (self.showerthoughts)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've always felt that Urban Dictionary and a Dictionary are situationally useful. I would've never known what 'eepy' meant if I used a normal dictionary (honestly, I guessed what it meant just to test myself), which is always late to add new slang words. All the same Urban Dictionary would never be useful for finding the meaning of a well established word.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Then again Wikitionary has both, so just use that for everything (including scrabble if you wanna get chaotic)