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A made-up word. Like all the other words, but new. We like 'em. We make them. Not to be confused with Personal Dictionary, which is pretending existing words mean something else. Compare Neologizer, for when using a large number of these is a character trait. Supertrope to Portmanteau. See also Perfectly Cromulent Word. |
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Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the 1981 book by Gary Wolfe, (which was the basis for the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit) introduced the word "Toon" as a name for a cartoon-type character. This is also a common synonym for one's avatar or character in various role-playing games. | |
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Retcon, short for retroactive continuity, was popularized, if not coined, in the letters columns and commentary of All-Star Squadron. | |
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The Far Side: One cartoon featured a classroom of cavemen, with the professor pointing at a picture of a Stegosaur's tail spikes: "Now this end is called the thagomizer ... after the late Thag Simmons." After it was found out that no term had indeed been coined for the spikes, "thagomizer" has since semi-seriously entered paleontologists' lexicon. Seriously enough that it's appeared in Nature. | |
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The Brazilian author João Guimarães Rosa (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) is well known for using a lot of neologisms in his works, mostly of them very hard to translate, since they are all made-up to work in Portuguese. | |
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Google. Its usage as a verb has become so widespread that it is now in the dictionary. Named after googol, which is also a neologism, and means 1.0 * 10^100, a one followed by a hundred zeroes and was invented by a 9 year old boy. The Other Wiki has details. And of course, there is the googolplex. The name of the headquarters of google, this is the number 1, followed by a googol of zeros. |
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Mary and Max: Max indulges in this, going so far as to write a letter to the Oxford Dictionary suggesting some new additions, namely "Confuzzled" (confused/puzzled), "Snirt" (snow/dirt), and "Smushables" (groceries that were smushed at the bottom of the bag). | |
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Septerra Core. The title contains "Septerra" which is the name of the planet the game takes place on. However, "Septerra", while a made-up word, can be taken to mean "Seven Lands", which is Fridge Brilliance because the game contains exactly that. | |
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James Fenimore Cooper is generally credited with either inventing or widely popularizing the name "Cora" in his novel The Last of the Mohicans. | |
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The phrase "bucket list" (meaning a list to complete before you die, or "kick the bucket") was coined by the movie The Bucket List in 2007, though the concept of making such a list has been around much longer. | |
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The Simpsons has produced a number of neologisms which have come into varying degrees of common use. In particular, Retirony and Perfectly Cromulent Word are named for terms originating on the show, as well as the popular remark "Meh" and the term "Jerkass". Note that the Wiktionary link for "embiggens" dates the coinage at 1884: the Simpsons merely popularized it. The Simpsons' use of "D'oh" wasn't new. It was a copy of James Finlayson's usage of the term. For those who don't recognize the name, Finlayson was a friend of Stan Laurel and frequent actor in Laurel and Hardy films — usually as the moustachioed antagonist. He introduced both "D'oh" and the Double Take to comedy film. |
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Buck Rogers invented the word "zap" as the sound a ray-gun makes. | |
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NetHack uses the word "cornuthaum" for a wizard's pointed hat. The hat existed in media before, but the word was specifically made up for use in NetHack. | |
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The Meaning of Liff, by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, consists entirely of invented meanings for various place names. Entries include "Sheppey" (a distance roughly 7/8 of a mile, the closest distance at which sheep remain picturesque) and Zeerust. An idea directly swiped, without attribution (but with a belated and muted apology) from Paul Jennings's article Ware? Wye? Watford? which contains such gems as Letchworth: n. A libertine, and Wembley: adj. ('I feel a bit wembley') used of the feeling before taking to bed. According to Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman, it was directly swiped from Adams's English teacher, although Adams later aknowledged that he may have swiped it from Jennings. Ironically, it was then swiped from Adams and Lloyd by an ad agency under the name "Oxtail English Dictionary" - the title Lloyd came up with when using them as space fillers in the Not the Nine O'Clock News calendar prior to making them a book. |
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The movements of Spinfer and Mawk in Welkin Weasels are described as "smooling". The narrator points out that this isn't a real word but it describes the action perfectly. | |
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Harry Potter and "Muggle" — being a fairly obvious nonsense word, it had been used by other people first, but J. K. Rowling gave us the definition of "normal person outside of the group; outsider." The closest English equivalent is "gentile", which can refer to any outsider of a certain sec, be it a non-Jew or a non-Mormon. Of course, ethnic minorities usually have their own word for an outsider, e.g. goyim (Yiddish), gaijin (Japanese), and gadje (Romani). The fact that they all start with a "g" is a coincidence. The word dates back further to 1920s New Orleans slang for marijuana. | |
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Paradise Lost: Lent the very word "pandemonium" to the language. We use it in English to mean chaos, but in the story it's actually an ordered, reasonable place. One demon suggests it so as to make a Heaven out of Hell. Adam mentions that everything Eve said appeared to be something called "veruousest." That isn't a real variation of "virtuous" and according to the Dartmouth commentary, it is "perhaps the ugliest word in all of Milton's poetry." |
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Dilbert has coined terms like Pointy-Haired Boss for any clueless boss that has no real management skill. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin, complaining about scientists' unimaginative naming, says that The Big Bang should have been called "The Horrendous Space Kablooie." Some physicists use that term now. | |
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Whateley Universe: Buttercuppy: From The Three Little Witches: When it's first used: And then again, presumably due to security spying on them. Or just coincidence... Which might not be so coincidental, given Clover's luck powers: |
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Finnegans Wake: Source of the nonce word 'quark', later used by scientists to refer to a subatomic particle. It comes from a mispronunciation of the word "quart," and is not related to the German word Quark, meaning a type of cheese. At the time, some scientists (among them Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann of Caltech), were working on a theory that explained the way that protons, neutrons, and other hadrons as being composed of smaller particles. Feynman referred to them as "partons," since they were "parts" of the proton (and "on" being the Greek suffix meaning "thing" that can be seen in "electron," "proton," neutron," etc); but Gell-Mann objected that this was an unholy combination of Latin and Greek roots and sought to come up with a better name. He eventually started calling them "quarks" after a line in Finnegan's Wake, and it caught on. Gell-Mann was being a little weird, but you know what they say, physicists have strange quarks. |
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Homestuck: The author loves making up words. For example, device that instantly brings a targeted object to itself is called an appearifier instead of a teleporter. | |
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The German translation of flubber, Flummi, coined by the film The Absent-Minded Professor, became such a common term for bouncy balls, that Disney decided to leave the title of the remake untranslated to preserve its novelty value. | |
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Karel Capek's play R.U.R. introduced the term "robot," meaning "indentured worker" in his native Czech, to mean an Artificial Human used to perform menial tasks, although these robots were biological. (According to Capek, it was his brother, Josef who suggested him the word). The term became universal in science fiction writing, and eventually came to use in the scientific mainstream to describe any machine that emulates a function performed by the human body. | |
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The term "grinch" has entered public lexicon thanks to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. The term means someone who hates a holiday (particularly Christmas), and tries to make it miserable for everybody else. | |
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"Waldo": 'waldo': A device which is controlled by moving a model of the device; usually a pair of robotic hands that are controlled by sensors in a pair of gloves. This allows things to be worked on remotely or for someone to control a much larger/smaller version of their own hands. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Big Brother, doublethink, unperson, doubleplusungood and others, mostly derived from Newspeak. There are plenty of other examples from the novel, but "doublespeak" is a Beam Me Up, Scotty!. Newspeak-style words that don't actually appear in 1984 have become an entire category of neologisms- for example, "Groupthink" is popular in political circles. |
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Stranger in a Strange Land: 'Grok': Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed, to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science, and it means as little to us (because of our Earthly assumptions) as color means to a blind man. | |
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legolas by laura: "and then Legolas was happy for somerising." | |
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On alt.comics.2000ad, newcomer writer Simon Spurrier referred to a troll as an "arsegike", misspelling "arsehole" by typing the letters to the left of some of the ones he required. The term has now joined the standard 2000 AD lexicon, alongside phrases such as "zarjaz", "grexnix" and "Squaxx dekk Thargo". | |
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A Clockwork Orange: "Horrorshow," a corruption of 'khorosho', the Russian word for 'good'. This book had an entire Future Slang, much of it based on Russian, some of which has trickled into common use. "Ultraviolence" and "droog" are some of the more popular ones. | |
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Howdy Doody: The term "Cowabunga" was coined as a faux-Indian nonsense word that served as a catchphrase for Chief Thunderthud. The word reemerged in the late 1960's within the lingo of American surfing culture, whose members likely grew up watching the show, and has since gained broader visibility through characters with Totally Radical attitudes, including Michelangelo and Bart Simpson. | |
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Seinfeld: The sitcom is credited with introducing a number of slang terms to the public vernacular thanks to its offbeat writing style. note Most of these terms existed before Seinfeld, but entered the public vernacular after being used on the show. These include "yada yada" (a type of Buffy Speak used to denote meaningless rambling), "man hands" (used to describe a woman with masculine-passing hands), "shrinkage" (when a penis temporarily shrivels from being submerged in water), "regifting" (taking your unwanted gift and giving it to somebody else), and "double dipping" (the act of dipping a piece of food, biting it, and then dipping the bitten end). Fans of the series dubbed these terms "Seinlanguage" after Jerry Seinfeld's 1993 joke book. | |
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Gulliver's Travels introduced the word 'yahoo' for a stupid loutish person, 'lilliputian' to describe something very small, and the lesser used 'brobdingnagian' to describe something very large. | |
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The Lord of the Rings and J. R. R. Tolkien established "dwarves" as the standard plural of "dwarf" in High Fantasy; Tolkien had a valid philological reason for wanting to change the accepted spelling ("dwarfs" is a bad plural formation, and it's properly "dwarrow" from the Middle English formation). "Elves" was already the standard plural of "elf", but Tolkien did popularize the adjective form "elven" instead of the then-standard "elfin". According to some sources, Tolkien was under the impression that the plural was "dwarves" when writing The Hobbit. Then in LOTR he used the name "Dwarrowdelf" (delving of dwarves, the translation of "Khazad-dûm" into common speech), and then in the appendices he claimed as the translator that he always meant to do that. |
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Peter Pan: Introduced the name 'Wendy', which was not a common English name before J. M. Barrie's character (it might have been an occasional shortening of the Welsh name "Gwendolyn," which is usually shortened to "Gwen" nowadays). It was derived from a toddler's inability to pronounce the letter R properly, so when she called JMB her "friendy," it became "fwendy-wendy." | |
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The word "baticeer" was coined by Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, in the A Series of Unfortunate Events books. It mean "one who trains bats" — and it's an anagram of the name "Beatrice," who Lemony Snicket dedicates all his books to. | |
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In Sam, Bangs & Moonshine, Sam uses the word "flumadiddle" to mean lies. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Words added to the vernacular by Star Trek include "warp speed" to describe going fast, and "beaming" for the concept of teleportation. | |
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Dream High School on Page 35: "Her eyes saucericize." | |
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The Bible: A 1530 translation of misinterpreted the name "Azazel" as "ez ozel," literally meaning "goat that departs." This eventually changed through Memetic Mutation to "escape goat," then to the modern "scapegoat." So, the word scapegoat literally originated from a Rouge Angle Of Satin. Azazel is a combination of two words meaning 'goat' and 'disappear'. The Latin Vulgate translates the Hebrew as capro emissario, or 'emissary goat' or 'scapegoat'. The Greek Septuagint translates the Hebrew as 'the one carrying away (averting) evil.' | |
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Brave New World: though it didn't create the word 'Soma' (Huxley borrowed the term for the unknown drug that ancient Hindus used to "bestride the Universe"), it is responsible for its modern popularity and connotations. | |
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The Producers: "Creative accounting." In widespread use during the sale-and-leaseback frenzy of the late-1980s boom, a process which like so much accounting at the time, had the actual effect of converting equity into debt, to be serviced by future revenue streams already allocated to other purposes. | |
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Tom Poes: This Dutch comic strip is well known for creating many neologisms in the Dutch language. | |
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Much like the "flange of baboons" example above, RPGMP3 is attempting to popularize "shower" as the collective term for a group of bastards. Perhaps after this exchange in an episode of Father Ted? ("Shower" is common Irish slang.) | |
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Saturday Night Live had Will Ferrell in character as George W. Bush. | |
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Peanuts: The term "security blanket" was coined by Schultz to describe Linus's blanket. It was quickly adapted by the public to mean either a literal item children use for comfort, or a set of security measures. Schultz also coined the term "Fuss budget" to describe Lucy. It was quickly adapted to mean "a person not easily satisfied or who complains about things which are not important." |
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Arguably, "Gothically"/"Goffically" and quite a few of the other words (usually verbs or adjectives) in the infamous My Immortal. | |
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The narrator of Dostoevsky's novel Demons coins the term "Shigalyovism" ("Shigalyovschina", in Russian), describing the ideology of a minor character. A member of the town's secret cadre of nihilists, who range from laughable idiots to terrifying psychopaths, Shigalyov argues that it is legitimate to subject 90% of humanity to abject slavery in order that the remaining 10% may enjoy a utopian paradise. The term came into common usage in Russia during the Stalinist era, for obvious reasons. | |
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Koan of the Day often prefixes words with "zen," creating neologisms such as "zenlightenment" or "zentertaining." | |
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The Deadly Rooms of Death series extends "once, twice, thrice" as follows: quarce, quince, sence, septence, octence, novence. All of these combine Latin numeric prefixes with the "-ce" ending of the first three. They have begun to show up in other places outside the series. | |
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Done in-universe in Frindle; the main character sets himself up as unique by coining the titular synonym for "pen", and the whole novel revolves around its emergence into popularity and the reluctance of adults to accept it as a proper word. At the end of the story, "frindle" becomes popular enough to be added to the English dictionary. | |
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In Blackadder, Edmund torments Dr. Samuel Johnson by making up words such as "contrafibularities", "anaspeptic", "phrasmotic", and "interphrastically". | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Internet term "spam" was derived from the infamous "SPAM" sketch. They're also responsible for the lesser-known word "splunge", which has the somewhat baffling definition of "yes or no at the same time without being indecisive." |
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Alex also used corknut for almond, which was later used by Margaret Atwood in Oryx and Crake. | |
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Ghostbusters (1984): The movie is the first recorded use of the word "Slime" as a verb. "He slimed me, Ray." | |
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As discussed on an episode of QI, the sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News once used "flange" as the collective noun for gorillas — as in "a pride of lions," "a pod of dolphins," "a flange of gorillas." It was just a joke, such as you might expect from a comedy show, but apparently some people took it at face value and the term has been adopted by academics, but to refer to baboons. The collective noun for gorillas is congress. | |
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Mary Poppins: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. | |
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In Shadows Over Loathing, the made-up word "fustulent" describes something that smells really bad, similar to "reeking." The crafting ingredient that makes Stench items (the Loathing setting uses some oddball magic elements) is Fustulent Grulch, with "grulch" apparently meaning "a globule of unidentafiable, loathesome semisolids." | |
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Unhalfbricking, the title of Fairport Convention's third album, came about in the course of a word game the band were playing to pass the time between gigs. The idea was for each player in turn to add one letter at either end of a word, in such a way that the resulting fragment could be the beginning of a real dictionary word but not such a word itself. | |
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Titan Maximum's "replacement", Titan Megamum. | |
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Mission: Impossible always started with The Leader listening to a tape describing the mission that that would then "self-destruct in five seconds". This was the first use of the term "self-destruct", for something or someone destroying themselves. | |
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Webcomic artist David Willis accidentally invented the exclamation "wiigii!" by typing the word "woohoo!" with the right hand shifted one spot to the left. It became the favorite expression of the title character in It's Walky!. | |
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According to some sources, Tolkien was under the impression that the plural was "dwarves" when writing The Hobbit. Then in LOTR he used the name "Dwarrowdelf" (delving of dwarves, the translation of "Khazad-dûm" into common speech), and then in the appendices he claimed as the translator that he always meant to do that. | |
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Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen gives us "plimpled". It's apparently a way of speaking, that can inexplicably be done "mutely". | |
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Gaslight: The film's title inspired the term "gaslighting", which came to mean a form of psychological abuse where one manipulates another into questioning their own sanity or reasoning, exactly as Charles Boyer does here. | |
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