Yesterday, OxfordDictionaries.com announced that together with words like “Grexit” and “Cat café”, they had added “meeple” to their online dictionary.  They define it as  “a small figure used as a playing piece in certain board games, having a stylized human form“.  They add that the origin is “apparently a blend of my and a phonetic respelling of people and first used with reference to the board game Carcassonne“.

– Image from thirstymeeples.co.uk