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{{quote|''Kickassery is a real word! That was not just rhyme for rhyme's sake. You can look that up in the Dikinjiary. <ref>If you can find it.</ref>''|[[Ask a Ninja]]}}
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== Comic Books ==
* On ''alt.comics.2000ad'', newcomer writer Simon Spurrier referred to a troll as an "arsegike", misspelling "arsehole" by typing the letters to the left of some of the ones he required. The term has now joined the standard ''2000AD'' lexicon, alongside phrases such as "zarjaz", "grexnix" and "Squaxx dekk Thargo".
** Webcomic artist David Willis did the same thing, accidentally inventing the exclamation "wiigii!" by typing the word "woohoo!" with the right hand shifted one spot to the left. It became the [[Catch Phrase|favorite expression]] of the title character in [[Its Walky]]
* [[Tom Poes]]: This Dutch comic strip is well known for creating many neologisms.
* Lobo frequently calls people "bastitches".
== Fan Fiction ==
* Arguably, "Sexily" "Gothically"/"Goffically" and quite a few of the other words (usually verbs or adjectives) in the infamous [[My Immortal]].
* [[Forbiden Fruit the Tempation of Edward Cullen (Fanfic)|Forbiden Fruit the Tempation of Edward Cullen]] gives us "plimpled". It's apparently a way of speaking, that can inexplicably be done "mutely".
* [[Legolas By Laura (Fanfic)|legolas by laura]]: "and then Legolas was happy for somerising."
== Film ==▼
▲== Film ==
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]'': Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
* ''[[The Producers]]'': "Creative accounting."
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* Harold Ramis notes on the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' commentary track, "I take full credit for turning 'slime' into a verb."
== Literature ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* ''[[A Clockwork Orange (Literature)|A Clockwork Orange]]'': "Horrorshow," a corruption of 'khorosho', the Russian word for 'good'. This book had an entire [[Future Slang]], much of it based on Russian, some of which has trickled into common use. "Ultraviolence" and "droog" are some of the more popular ones.
* ''[[Brave New World (Literature)|Brave New World]]'': though it didn't create the word 'Soma' (Huxley borrowed the term for the unknown drug that ancient Hindus used to "bestride the Universe"), it is responsible for its modern popularity and connotations.
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* The Roman poet [[Catullus (Creator)|Catullus]] coined the word 'basiationes' as a more decorative version of 'basia' - 'kiss', making this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].
== Music ==▼
▲== Music ==
* [[Steve Miller]] spoke of the "Pompatus of Love" in "The Joker" and the earlier, less well-known song "Enter Maurice." This word, spelled "pompitous" in the printed lyrics of "Enter Maurice," was a corruption of "puppetutes" (a [[Portmanteau]] of "puppet" and "prostitutes"), which was used in the Medallions' 1954 hit "The Letter."
== Newspaper Comics ==▼
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Peanuts]]'' famously coined the term "security blanket."
* ''[[The Far Side]]:'' One cartoon featured a classroom of cavemen, with the professor pointing at a picture of a Stegosaur's tail spikes: "Now this end is called the thagomizer ... after the late Thag Simmons." After it was found out that no term had indeed been coined for the spikes, "thagomizer" has since semi-seriously entered paleontologists' lexicon. Seriously enough that it's appeared in ''Nature''.
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** "Verbing" itself is actually an interesting case: it is a noun, used as a gerund<ref>a verb used as a noun</ref>. As such, it is a noun used as a verb used as a noun.
== Television ==▼
▲== Television ==
* [[Stephen Colbert]]. While 'Truthiness' already had an archaic (different from the modern) definition, 'Wikiality' is a whole new word.
* In 1995, Conan O'Brien was looking for a word to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|outwit the censors]]. He came up with the word "Crunk." Ice-T used the word several times during the broadcast. Nowadays, there's barely a rapper alive that doesn't have "crunk" in his vocabulary...and there's now even an [[Crunkcore|entire genre of music]] named after it...
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** Flopcorn -- kernels of corn in a bag of popcorn that fail to pop. Interestingly enough, a maker of microwave popcorn used the term in a printed advertisement
*** There ''is'' a word for unpopped popcorn in the business. They're called "old maids".
* In ''[[Black Adder]]'', Edmund torments Dr. Samuel Johnson by making up words such as "contrafibularities", "anaspeptic", "phrasmotic", and "interphrastically".
== Video Games ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* 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" for a wizard's pointed hat. The hat existed in media before, but the word was specifically made up for use in Nethack.
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== Web Original ==
* Google. Its usage as a verb has become so widespread that [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|it is now in the dictionary.]]
** Named after googol, which is also a neologism, and means 1.0 * 10^100, a one followed by a hundred zeroes and was invented by a 9 year old girl. [[The Other Wiki]] has [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol details].
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== Western Animation ==
* The term "''[[The Grinch|grinch]]''" has entered public lexicon thanks to ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animation)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''. The term means someone who hates a holiday (particularly Christmas), and tries to make it miserable for everybody else.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has produced a number of neologisms which have come into varying degrees of common use. In particular, [[Retirony]] and [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]] are named for terms originating on the show, as well as the popular remark "Meh."
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'''Sasha Caylo:''' Titan Megamum? Megamum isn't even a word.<br />
'''Troy Hammerschmidt:''' Neither is ''vaginacillin'', but that didn't stop you from using it as the title for your third album... or your fragrance line. }}
== Real Life ==
* People with various mental/neurological conditions and brain injuries are prone to forming neologisms of their own, which are often consistent enough that families and friends learn and use them. Examples of conditions where this could happen include autism, the aphasias, schizophrenia, post-stroke or brain-injury, and the various speech/language disorders. Typical toddlers, while learning to speak, may also form neologisms.
* Santorum. Once, just the innocent surname of a Pennsylvania senator. Then Dan Savage decided the word needed a meaning -- [[Squick|a meaning]] [[Schmuck Bait|you will probably not want to look up]]. Dan Savage writes a (often very funny) sex advice column, and the name was coined after Senator Santorum said something particularly stupid and offensive. The definition for it is {{spoiler|the ass-lube mix that occurs after anal sex.}} Years later, Santorum still has difficulty with it and refers to it as "his Google problem."
** Dan Savage also midwifed the verb form of Saddleback. '''saddleback''', ''v.'' To have anal sex in order to [[Technical Virgin|preserve one's virginity]]. [[Older Than Dirt|Historically practiced by pretty much everyone]].
*** Named after Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Orange County.
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** In this case the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the complimentary text remained.
* Gerrymander (v) - to improve prospects for re-election by tampering with electoral boundaries or populations. Named after one such redrawing by Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry in 1812, resulting in one particularly convoluted constituency that resembled a salamander. It was then referred to as the "Gerrymander" by the ''Boston Centinel''.
* During
* Alex, the Grey Parrot that was the research subject of Irene Pepperburg, had difficulty learning how to pronounce "apple", and created "banerry". A linguist colleague of hers suspected it was a portmanteau of "banana" and "cherry", reasoning that the apple might taste a bit like a banana to the bird, and looked like a giant cherry.
** Alex also used corknut for almond, which was later used by Margaret Atwood in ''[[Oryx and Crake]]''.
* The Washington Post often holds a contest to create a new word by adding or removing a letter from an existing one. One of the winners: "Sarchasm" -- the gap between someone being sarcastic and [[
* It stands to reason that ''every'' word had to be made up by somebody. [[Not So Different|Thus all words were]] originally [[Neologism|Neologisms]].
* Know what "dord" means? Density is represented in science by D, or alternatively by d. This was submitted to the Oxford English Dictionary as, "D or d: a term used in science to mean density." Of course, someone misread it, and for decades "dord" was in the dictionary.
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