Merriam Webseter 2024 Word Of The Year. If the previous honorees are any indication, the word of the. Sportswriters often use the word drub when a team they are covering is drubbed—that is, routed—but the term’s history reveals that it wasn’t always a sporting word.

Every year the oxford english dictionary selects a word of the year that is meant to reflect “the moods and conversations” that have shaped the previous year. Dictionary.com has crowned demure its word of the year for 2024, just ahead of brainrot and brat in the battle for supremacy in the pop culture lexicon.