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NEOLOGISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
NEOLOGISM, A new WORD or sense of a word and...or use of new words and senses. Most neologisms in English belong in the following categories...representative decade-by-decade lists of neologisms: 1940s. acronym, airlift, apartheid...
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Pacifism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Pacifism The term pacifism is a neologism that was coined in the early twentieth century. It was invented...pacifique , or Friedensbewegung were not fully displaced by the neologism. It has been suggested that an analytical distinction be made...
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NONSENSE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...sense.’ See DECORATIVE ENGLISH . Nonsense verse The humour of nonsense verse is usually emphasized by rare words, neologisms, and unexpected juxtapositions. Often intended for children, such verse also appeals to an adult sense of the ridiculous...
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PHILIPPINE ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...children) misbehaving, I am ashamed to you I am embarrassed because I have been asking you so many favours. (4) Local NEOLOGISMS : agrupation (from Spanish agrupación ) a group, captain-ball team captain in basketball, carnap to steal...
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-ISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...anachronism , aphorism , archaism , barbarism , classicism , colloquialism , dysphemism , euphemism initialism , malapropism , neologism , regionalism , solecism , syllogism , truism , verbalism , witticism . (3) Forming words that identify usages as belonging...
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ROOT-CREATION
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...x2018;roots’ because they can and often do become the foundations of more complex forms, such as Hoovermatic , Kodachrome , mobster , smog-bound , and tawdriness . See ECHOISM , NEOLOGISM , ONOMATOPOEIA , PHONAESTHESIA .
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STUNT WORD
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...young upwardly mobile professional), yap (young aspiring professional), mumpie (Malaysian yumpie), McYuppie (Scottish yuppie), and yuckie (a yuppie who makes you sick). Compare BUZZ WORD , NEOLOGISM , NONCE WORD , NONSENSE .
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TIMESPEAK
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...as bravura and quondam , such slang terms as glitz ( y ), miffed , natty , and wacky (often in formal contexts), such neologisms as shopaholic , sweetspeak , hippiedom , and such phrase words as ‘Johnson's close-to-the-vest method...
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CAPITAL
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...the first, as in CorrecText , DeskMate , VisiCalc , WordPerfect . Related word- and letter-play may also occur, as in VisiOn , CoRTeXT . Such a convention allows an unlimited range of visual neologism. See ALPHABET , PUNCTUATION .
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JOURNALESE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...defines journalese as: ‘(1) a manner of writing or speaking characterized by CLICHÉS , occasional NEOLOGISM , archness, sensationalizing adjectives, unusual or faulty syntax, etc., used by some journalists, esp. certain columnists...
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