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w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word
Jay writes "The word has been getting out apparently. No longer just a word for gamers, 'woot' now appears as #3 in Merriam-Webster's What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)? contest. It was beaten out by ginormous and confuzzled."
Gigantor is actually the name of a manga (and subsequent anime tv series) about a giant robot.
Badass Resumes
Confuzzled is heavily used in the Central US. Its not generally used seriously either, just a cute term for puzzled confusion mostly among good friends.
Neither. They're supposed to describe the bits of language that are actually used by large populations. Slang and jargon are covered in slang and jargon dictionaries unless they reach critical mass and enter the popular lexicon. Most dictionaries screen for historicity also, so that if a word newly coined word is incredibly popular for a week but fades into oblivion, it doesn't enter. This is a good reference -- note the menu on the right of the page.
After all, I am strangely colored.
Actually there are at least 10 different explanations about the origin of "w00t", ranging from Quake to Daffy Duck. I guess the truth will remain a mystery.
I've always been quite fond of 'automagically'. It makes a great shorthand for "This happens automatically by a process that's complicated enough that it probably wouldn't be worth your while to try and understand it, hence you can just assume it happens by magic" - basically any process that looks like magic due to various hidden complicated processes taking place in the background.
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
Well, actually the origin of w00t is not known for sure. Wikipedia gives a number of ideas on where w00t came from.
See the Wikipedia article.