
We regret to inform Twitter that welp is a word, even if it's not in the dictionary.


And yet:ĭoug Lambert Tweet: "Welp" is not a word…. Social media is a place where informal language flourishes, which means that lexicographers get to chronicle the exploits of words that don't have much written use in edited prose-words like welp.Ĭhicago Tribune Tweet: Welp, here comes the 1st accumulating snowfall of this winter…. Update: This word was added in March 2018. " Yes, 'Welp' Is a Real Word: 'Welp' is over 70 years old" Still, I was curious, so I looked around a bit, and found this entry in Merriam-Webster: Or, I thought, perhaps it's a typo for "well". I had no idea what he meant by the first syllable.

This morning, someone sent me a message that began, "Welp, at least word boundaries are respected…".
