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#563. Neologism.
— N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression,
nonce expression; back-formation; caconym[obs3]; barbarism.
archaism, black letter,
monkish Latin.
corruption, missaying[obs3],
malapropism, antiphrasis[obs3].
pun, paranomasia[obs3],
play upon words; word play &c. (wit) 842;
double-entendre &c. (ambiguity) 520[Fr]; palindrome,
paragram[obs3], 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[obs3];
Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon
English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani,
kitchen Kaffir.
dog Latin, macaronics[obs3],
gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel;
babu English[obs3], chi-chi.
figure of speech &c.
(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[obs3].
pseudonym &c. (misnomer)
565; Mr. So-and-so; wha d’ye call ’em[obs3],
whatchacallim, what’s his name; thingummy[obs3],
thingumbob; je ne sais quoi[Fr].
neologist[obs3], coiner
of words.
V. coin words, coin
a term; backform; Americanize, Anglicize.
Adj. neologic[obs3],
neological[obs3]; archaic; obsolete &c. (old)
124; colloquial; Anglice[obs3].
#564. Nomenclature.
— N. nomenclature; naming &c. v.; nuncupation|,
nomination, baptism; orismology[obs3]; onomatopoeia;
antonomasia[obs3].
name; appelation[obs3],
appelative[obs3]; designation, title; heading,
rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet.
style, proper name;
praenomen[Lat], agnomen[obs3], cognomen;
patronymic, surname; cognomination[obs3]; eponym;
compellation[obs3], description, antonym; empty title,
empty name; handle to one’s name; namesake.
term, expression, noun;
byword; convertible terms &c. 522; technical
term; cant &c. 563.
V. name, call, term,
denominate designate, style, entitle,
clepe[obs3], dub, christen, baptize, characterize,
specify, define, distinguish by the name of; label
&c. (mark) 550. be -called &c v.; take the name of,
bean the name of, go by the name of, be known by the
name of, go under the name of, pass under the name
of, rejoice in the name of.
Adj. named &c. v.; hight[obs3],
ycleped, known as; what one may well,
call fairly, call properly, call fitly.
nuncupatory[obs3], nuncupative;
cognominal[obs3], titular, nominal,
orismological[obs3].
Phr. “beggar’d
all description” [Antony and Cleopatra].


