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* On ''[[The Sarah Silverman Program]]'', in the episode "Kangamangus", Sarah tries to coin a new word and comes up with "ozay" (hard to define, but when you just feel...ozay). Her attempts to popularize it pale next to the organic spread of "dotnose", which Brian comes up with accidentally when Steve is so stubborn that he won't acknowledge a marker dot on his own nose despite everyone mentioning it. Others find "dotnose" offensive for no particular reason (other than that it sounds insulting), and at a dictionary induction ceremony, Brian and Steve are threatened with the "kangamangus" (a very specific physical retribution).

* On an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Marshall says he's been using made up words to avoid lying to Lily. "Are you going to quit and work for the NRDC?" "Absatively!"

** The narrator would have known this if he had watched a single episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', where Helga said this word so frequently as to really make it [[Catch Phrase|her own]].

* In ''[[Hustle]]'', Mickey and Emma have a long debate over whether 'stickability' is a word. Mickey insists that if it isn't, then it should be.

 

== [[Theater]] ==

* [[Shakespeare]] is famous for this. Google it. Of course, there is some argument as to whether he was the first to use the words, or simply the first to write them down. Due to the vast number of words he "made up," it seems likely that it's some of both. Due to his creativity with the language, he has had perhaps more influence on English than any other individual.

* The ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' musical has a number of these being used by corrupt headmistress/press secretary Madame Morrible, including "definish" (as in "definite"...ish), "braverism" and "surreptitially". This [[The Barnum|suits her character]] well.

* ''[[Jade Empire]]'' features a character, Qui the Promoter, who talks almost entirely like this, including a [[Shout-Out]] to the ''Simpsons'' quote at the top of the page.

{{quote|'''Qui the Promoter:''' This is turning out to be an excellent day. Most austipacatious indeed!

'''Qui the Promoter:''' Don't get flusterated. Everything I say is perfectly cromulent, and it might do you well to embiggen your vocabulary before you fling accretions my discretion. }}

* This is the source of a running gag in ''[[Fable]] II.'' You see, it turns out that there's a new thesaurus being published in Albion...

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