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Is there a linguistic term for 'made-up' word?

Doing English language coursework, and i was wondering if there was a linguistic term to describe a 'made-up' word.

It is used in the context 'Holy Chavarama',(used in an article to describe Katie Price) what word class would it be?

Any help would be much appreciated.

xxx

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I believe the word you're looking for is "cromulent". It was used to describe the made up word "embiggens"

    Source(s): The Simpsons
  • 1 decade ago

    The closest match is, 'Undefined'.

    Well, the problem with that is that any made-up word is no more and no less still, a word and this is because all words were made up by someone at some point (mostly Shakespeare and the Greeks, but many other people too).

    What I think you are getting at is whether its defined in a dictionary or not. Seeing as you asked the question in English, the English dictionary in particular. This depends on whether the word is accepted by the people that govern the english language at Oxford University.

    So, if this is what you mean then you could say that you invented a new word, that the word isn't defined in the Dictionary or it might be simpler to describe the word as 'undefined'.

    (Edit) Someone above suggested 'neologism'. That's the best answer, I reckon.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    The word you are looking for is 'nonce'. Nonce words are words that are created (or coined - hence coinage) either for some particular communication purpose or in linguistic experiments. In these experiments, nonce words may either follow the morphology of a language (rules of normal formation of words) or break them on purpose. One of the most famous nonce experiment involves investigating children's ability to correctly form the plural of the nonce word 'wug' (add an -s that's pronounced like [z]...

  • 5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    The only thing I can think of is "fabricated"

    The word was fabricated in the mind of the speaker

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Portmanteau?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Neologism means a new word.

  • 1 decade ago

    psuedo?

    a fictive statment?

    an invented holler?

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