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** In the German translation, this word was "Spunk", which isn't a ''German'' word. In English it's "spink".
* [[Douglas Adams]] invented some "hitchhiker slang" for ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', such as "sass" (know, be aware of, have sex with), "hoopy" (really together guy) and "frood" (really amazingly together guy).
** In ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'', Dirk's [[Suspiciously Specific Denial
* Spinfer, Falshed's smarmy [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]] in ''[[Welkin Weasels]]'', was described as "smooling" into a room. The narrator gives this a [[Lampshade Hanging]] with: "This is not a real word, but describes the action perfectly."
* ''[[Redwall]]'''s babies and toddlers are known as "Dibbuns". Brian Jacques was asked if this was an actual British regional slang term, and he said that it's actually just a nonsense word which sounded appropriately cute.
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