The Surprising History Behind the Word Pokémon
Dictionary.com added a definition for the word on July 19
If a bewildered Boomer turned to an online dictionary these last few weeks, hoping to make some sense out of all thisPokémon business in the news, they likely would have been greeted with a correction. Did you mean pikeman, a soldier armed with a pike? Or perhaps the shell membrane, putamen? Maybe pygmaean, that which is typical of pygmies?
As of Tuesday, however, this set will get the results they’re looking for on Dictionary.com.
bt Katy Steinmetz, read more in time.com