Words similar to neologism
Example sentences for: neologism
How can you use “neologism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
He rhymed it with pandemonium ; judging from the lawsuits which proliferate over condominium parking spaces, balcony barbecues, and pets pooping in the halls, he might have been right to use the neologism.
Chimp neologism for a stale pastry: "cookie rock."
"Islamists consider Islam to be as much a religion as an 'ideology,' a neologism which they introduced and which remains anathema to the ulamas (the clerical scholars)."
' Take musuko `son,' the standard Japanese slang word for penis, translate it into English, add play , and you have a sprightly and newfangled neologism.
Once the provenance of hype has been established, you can discard Murphy's elaborate apparatus for explaining overhyped . That ghastly neologism is just the latest example of the peculiar American tendency toward tautological idioms.