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And Fallovian ? In this case, the contextual evidence suggested that Michael Lewis' coinage fell into the class of eponym known as a "derivative"--in this case, derived from a name, that of James Fallows, editor of U.S.
Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.
It is just curious that what one might assume to be a fairly obvious coinage cannot be documented to an earlier date.
After all, coinage and currency usually reflect the character of the issuing state, and in this case the state is largely bureaucratic.
Repetition of meaningful phrases (like Heller's own coinage, "catch-22") tends to drain them of meaning.