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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 based on the manipulation of pre-existing images rather than the coinage of new ones.
Bald Pates is almost self-explanatory, being a name used in Kent rural areas for silver Roman coinage ploughed up, found in barrows, etc., and possibly referring to the poor design or baldness of the effigy on some of the coins.
Other significant editorial practices: the Feminist Dictionary lexicogaphers refuse to label a word like herstory a coinage.
We can get by with a coinage like laughorama because we know -orama's affiliation with panorama will tell our listeners enough for the moment, even though the innovation's -orama does not clearly mean `view,' as it does in the model.