coinings

Of course, these types of coinings are commonplace shorthand, “pro-choice” and “pro-life” being but two.

The Volokh Conspiracy » More from Richard Epstein on the Sotomayor Nomination, 2009

Why is cool still around when, for example, groovy, fab, far out and so many other, presumably later, coinings have fallen out of use?

Archive 2008-02-01 David Hadley 2008

And the last chapter is a repository for vocabulary counts, etymologies, borrowings and coinings, slang, and other events that occur as relics in the contemporary lexicon.

On Linguistics Goodman, Paul 1964

Tales of his boyish pluck and hardihood cannot be disputed, while others that record his youthful cruelty are doubtless the coinings of slander.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

My apparent candour, impudence, and readiness gave a currency to the coinings of my brain which far surpassed the dull matter-of-fact of my unwary contemporaries.

Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

(* Previous coinings include “metafatigue” and “gurule.”

inkblurt · Ustiquity 2005