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{{quote|'''Mrs. Krabappel''': [[Lampshade Hanging|"Embiggens"? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield.]]
'''Ms. Hoover''': I don't know why. It's a [[Trope Namer|perfectly cromulent word]].
|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
A character quotes a seemingly made-up word that no one has ever heard of before then. This is usually a word the writer just made up, but is occasionally a real obscure, archaic, or obsolete word; for instance, 400 years before we had computers, we had ''email'', which is a raised or embossed image pressed into metal.
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* In a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch, the word "splunge" is coined by frightened screenwriters to provide temporary respite from tyrannical Hollywood producer Irving C. Saltzberg. It means, "It's a great idea, but possibly not, and I'm not being indecisive!"
* In a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch parodying ''[[Inside The Actors Studio|Inside the Actor's Studio]]'', Will Ferrell (impersonating James Lipton) describes an actor's performance as so great that no word in English can do it justice, and that he must invent a new word right now to properly convey its greatness: ''Scrumtrulescence''. The performance was ''scrumtrulescent''.
** [[Xzibit]] has gone on to use this word in episodes of ''[[Pimp My Ride]]'' .
** Also in ''SNL'', and spoofing Bush's supposed lack of intelligence (even if the sketch is from before his first election): the mediator of the Gore-Bush debate asks them for a one-word "best argument for the campaign". Bush's one is "Strategerie".
** In a joking [[Take That]] at his critics, Bush and other members of his administration continued to drop the word "strategery" into public statements, and it was used as the title of a book about the President which depicted a disconnect between his shrewd political savvy as represented in the book, and his bumbling buffoonery as represented by his enemies.
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