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- verb Present participle of
coin . - noun uncountable A form of
alternative medicine from SoutheastAsia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on apatient 's oiled skin. - noun countable, linguistics A newly created word or phrase
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Examples
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Mr. Bezos, This type of coining is just a really cool way to showcase what now is the Worlds Largest
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This is my experiment in coining a Technorati tag.
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Some readers seemed more interested in expressing a point of view than in coining a word.
Word Fugitives 2007
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Some readers seemed more interested in expressing a point of view than in coining a word.
Word Fugitives 2007
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The Hindus also learned the art of coining from the Greeks, or possibly from the Chinese, and the stores of Greco-Hindu coins still found in northern India are a constant source of historical information. [
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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So, I've got one of the longer bookshelves on recreational word coining in the English-speaking world, I would like to think.
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The Atlantic's "Ms. Grammar" (aka Barbara Wallraff) talks about wordplay, recreational word coining, and her new book, Word Fugitives.
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I took an interest in this question when researching the book, and tracing back the history, you start to think, well, what is the difference between recreational word coining and regular word coining?
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The Atlantic's "Ms. Grammar" (aka Barbara Wallraff) talks about wordplay, recreational word coining, and her new book, Word Fugitives.
Word Fugitives 2006
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The holy grail of contemporary word coining — and this is not recreational — is a singular personal pronoun that means he or she.
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