Fluffernutter: a sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow crème between two slices of white sandwich bread.
If you’re from the Northeast, you may be familiar with the sweet “delicacy” known as fluffernutter. While the sandwich is most popular in the New England area (it was invented in Massachusetts in the 1910s), its influence and prevalence have spread throughout the country over the past century.
But the word “fluffernutter” didn’t officially enter the Merriam-Webster dictionary until October, along with 455 other new words.
New words often reflect the big stories of the year or notable changes in our culture. The 2021 word of the year was “vaccine,” preceded by “pandemic” in 2020 — both testaments to a terrible era.