The word “twerking” has officially been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

The dance move has recently been made popular by Miley Cyrus, especially after her recent raunchy demonstration of the move at the MTV Video Music Awards.

As well as “twerking” other words that have been added to the Dictionary include “omnishambles” and “selfie”.

Katherine Conner Martin of the Oxford Dictionary commented on the decision to add “twerk” to the dictionary: "By last year, it had generated enough currency to be added to our new words watch list, and by the spring, we had enough evidence of usage frequency in a breadth of sources to consider adding it to our dictionaries of current English."

She went on to explain that the word has already been in use in the US for 20 years: "There are many theories about the origin of this word, and since it arose in oral use, we may never know the answer for sure. The current public reaction to twerking is reminiscent in some ways of how the twisting craze was regarded in the early 1960s, when it was first popularised by Chubby Checker's song, 'The Twist'."