word-coining

We celebrate it by going over to his blog and praising his word-coining abilities.

Happy Blogtopia Day 2006

The story is all about America and is thoroughly American; inevitably therefore there is some ambitious word-coining.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 Various

Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into

The Common Reader 1925

A truce to Euphuistic word-coining and phrase-shifting!

The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897

Besides, when many and many a noted Croesus, at whose feet the people worship, and many and many a time-serving and word-coining politician are forgotten, the names of those grand-hearted old adventurers who have made England what she is, will be remembered and taught with love and pride to little children whose unshaped spirits yet slumber in the womb of centuries to be.

Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

We have seen it from age to age running parallel with the history, and varying with the mental development of the times, rising and falling in fables, demonology, word-coining and coarseness, and I hope we may add in practical joking and coxcombry.

History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

To bend a phrase from that word-coining bard, "critics, you doth protest too much."

PopMatters Bill Reagan 2010

Sarah Palin uses word "refudiate," then likens her word-coining ways to Shakespeare's.

NYT > Home Page 2010

Since I’m on a bit of a word-coining jag of late, I should note that the scintillating Laure has improved upon my tag for a literary phenomenon I’d long dubbed “Paul Auster Syndrome,” offering the far more concise Austerism.

Austerism 2007