Originally Posted By: tsuwm
but this is my favorite citation:
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange[/


now I'm going to go see if I can find it in some other reference books on my shelf(s)..
I was already convinced reading this that the word is not just a fashionable thing. I remember the movie and that's old enough to be an example of long term usage. Never even knew it was a book. So..