Developers making up words so they and their friends can win Scrabble... Or get foreign words into mainstream?

Pretty sure that word and definition is korean... Can find it in Webster's online...

Opa is german

@IntrusionCM oh it is? also grandfather?
I saw in wiki it was some greek word but yes neither is english...

@donuts ok.

Did I not get the joke?

Grandfather is english Oo

Or Großvater in German, which is the meaning of Opa...

@IntrusionCM "The meaning is also grandfather (just like in Korean) ?"
Translated it for you ;)

British English already was just a cover of the most popular remixes of half Europe before we brought freedom and democracy to the new world.
And today, it is the lingua franca of the western hemisphere. So further remixing shouldn't come as a surprise...

Complaining about finding some foreign words in an English dictionary is pretty pointless.

Opa is also grandfather in Dutch 🙂

It's a short sound, pretty sure it has meanings in many languages. For example I've heard Boris (from Life of Boris) say it to express satisfaction.

Opa is not grandfather in Korean though 🤔 in korean it's a honorific towards an older male spoken by a female, iirc. Korean has weird gender dependent honorifics...

@iiii oh... Somehow I just remember it as old man... But I don't m haven't watch kdramas in years

@donuts I read korean comics, so stumble upon those frequently. Just like "senpai" in japanese. Maybe it has another meaning, but that is what I encountered

@iiii yes maybe I was thinking of oji-san... Got languages meanings mixed up. That and somehow when I think of opa just get an image old young girl talking to an older guy... Way older

Opa is melayu language for old person, work on both gender

Fun fact:

30% of English words are already from French, another 50% overlap with Norse specifically.

English is already mostly foreign words.

And, "Oma" and "Opa" are german, they're your grandparents.

😂😂 O.A.P in England stands for old age pensioner but acronyms aren’t words

@bashleigh I have a RADAR, a LASER and a SCUBA that beg to differ. I think I also had a PDF but it went AWOL.