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noun
- (wjargon) A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become accepted into the language; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet in general use.
- 2005 February 15, Steve Gooch, Ceci n'est pas une cybercarnet., at <tt>mentalspigot.com</tt> http://www.mentalspigot.com/archaeology/000800.html
- : Finally, a for one of my favorite activities.
- 2005, Geoffrey D. Falk, Stripping the Gurus, Appendix IV, Million Monkeys Press
- : spoofs that I incorporated in this essay: ... coined a neologism/
- 2006 February 7, Scott Fletcher, "Podfaders in Wired Magazine", Podcheck Review http://blog.podcheck.com/?p=52
- : If you're...a member of the Wikipedia police, the word "podfade" is merely neologistic , not suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia.
- 2006 March 15, Ian Morrison, "Tom Weir", <tt>soc.culture.scottish</tt>, Usenet
- : I think it is very cheeky to suggest that
- our
- word is a when the word "protologism" itself was only invented a month ago.
- 2006 September 12, Dwight "The Troubled Teen", "Vocab Vacuum", Ruminations of a Misspent Youth, at <tt>dwightthetroubledteen.blogspot.com</tt> http://dwightthetroubledteen.blogspot.com/2006/09/vocab-vacuum.html
- :So what's the word for.... I need a good Sniglet or .
- 2006 December 16, Kevin Doran, "Poem in elimae", Kevin Doran http://kevindoran.blogspot.com/2006/12/poem-in-elimae.html
- : it's a visual pun, portmanteau (of sorts), and .
Etymology: Coined by Mikhail Epstein (and adopted by the Wiktionary community) from protos, first + logos, word, by analogy with prototype and neologism.
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