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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Koodo Mobile's newest {{when}} ad campaign centers around made-up words of varying levels of cromulence, such as "Thumbactionist", "Tabrific", "Bigbillification", and other things that sound like they came out of an ad campaign in [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]].
** A few years ago{{when}}, a car ad in the UK was very similar, but exclusively picked two (often opposed) words, and mashed them together- "Sporty" and "Safe" became "Spafe", for instance. [[Top Gear|Richard Hammond]] deemed this to be a load of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|shiny and bright]].
* A recent{{when}} [[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]] themed cell phone commercial describes its internet surfing as "faster-er."
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* 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.
** Also from [[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]], G(a)linda gives us confusifying. Yep. Confusifying.
* ''[[Our American Cousin]]'' has "sockdologizing", which (judging by [[Audience Reactions]]) was the funniest word in the play when it was performed during the 1860s. Alas, the context that it was used in doesn't provide any context for its meaning, other than that it isn't complimentary.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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