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neologizer

noun

Etymology

From neologize + -er.

Definitions

  1. Someone who neologizes

    Someone who neologizes; a coiner of new words.

    • The most verbally innovative of our authors and our all-time champion neologizer, Shakespeare made up more than 8.5 percent of his written vocabulary.
    • For most words, the neologizer (or neologizers -- new words, like teenage trends or the calculus, are likely to pop up at the same time in very different places) is anonymous, although there are some exceptions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for neologizer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA