A new book looks at hip neologisms that the author claims will never make the dictionary (my favorite, here, is
yakass, referring to those folks who are forever strolling around with a cell-phone glued to their ear
) :
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5256942
Words for visting the fridge over and over from the link:
cold comfort, refrigerator magnetism, smorgasboredom, freonnui, stirvation, procrastifrigeration, bored chilly, expiration dating, Frigistaire, sub-zero interest, fridgety
... clearly these same people also have a strong need to label their repetitive behaviour. Is there a word for the incessant creation of countless neologisms to describe something? Can I have 400 suggestions, please!:-) I do like 'expiration dating' though.
I don't think neologism is really the word to describe such witty wordplay as "pandephonium" (the confusion that results when a cell phone rings and nobody knows whose it is) and "smorgasboredom." To use these words in everyday conversation would be to wear out a joke.
Is there a word for the incessant creation of countless neologisms to describe something? Can I have 400 suggestions, please!:-) I do like 'expiration dating' though.
neologuising...?
How about taking the German approach: Makingupnewwordsforthingsthatotherwisewouldn'thavewordstodescribethemism?
neologorrhea would be shorter
Think they can be called portmanteau, blend, infixes, and SNIGLETS