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A made-up word. Like all the other words, but ''new''.
Differs from the [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]] in that the [[Neologism]] is born or constructed from existing words either via [[Portmanteau]],
Not to be confused with [[Personal Dictionary]], which is pretending existing words mean something else.
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{{quote|'''Stephen Fry:''' What's the collective noun for a group of baboons?
'''Rich Hall:''' The Pentagon. }}
* On ''[[Not Necessarily the News]]'', Rich Hall created a segment which encouraged viewers to write in examples. The segment was called "Sniglets", which was defined as "Words that should be in the dictionary but aren't." Some examples include:
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** Carperpetuation—repeatedly vacuuming a piece of lint or other object stuck on a carpet, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then throwing it back down to give the vacuum
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*** There ''is'' a term for unpopped popcorn in the business. They're called "old maids".
* In ''[[Blackadder]]'', Edmund torments Dr. Samuel Johnson by making up words such as "contrafibularities", "anaspeptic", "phrasmotic", and "interphrastically".
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* The ''[[Deadly Rooms of Death|DROD]]'' series extends "once, twice, thrice" as follows: quarce, quince, sence, septence, octence, novence. All of these combine Latin numeric prefixes with the "-ce" ending of the first three. They have begun to show up in other places outside the series.
* ''[[Nethack]]'' uses the word "cornuthaum",
* ''[[Septerra Core]]''. The title contains "Septerra", which is the name of the planet the game takes place on
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