neologism

Roget category 563

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#563. Neologism

noun

neology, neologism — newfangled expression, nonce expression — back-formation — caconym^† — barbarism.
archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.
corruption, missaying^†, malapropism, antiphrasis^†.
pun, paranomasia^†, play upon words — word play etc. (wit) 842 — double-entendre [Fr.] etc. (ambiguity) 520 — palindrome, paragram^†, anagram, clinch — abuse of language, abuse of terms.
dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois — provincialism, regionalism, localism — broken English, lingua franca — Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism — Americanism^† — Gypsy lingo, Romany — pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English — Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin, macaronics^†, gibberish — confusion of tongues, Babel — babu English^†, chi-chi.
figure of speech etc. (metaphor) 521 — byword.
colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.
substandard language, vernacular.
vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.
jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot — St.
Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.
pseudology^†.
pseudonym etc. (misnomer) 565 — Mr.
So-and-so — wha d'ye call 'em^†, whatchacallim, what's his name — thingummy^†, thingumbob — je ne sais quoi [Fr.].
neologist^†, coiner of words.

verb

coin words, coin a term — backform — Americanize, Anglicize.

adjective

neologic^†, neological^† — archaic — obsolete etc. (old) 124 — colloquial — Anglice^†.

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