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- noun Plural form of
wordmaker .
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Phobophobia, the fear of being afraid, is another coinage of the wordmakers.
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Phobophobia, the fear of being afraid, is another coinage of the wordmakers.
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I wonder why they - I guess the 18th century wordmakers - stopped there?
Alien Loves Predator admin 2010
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I wonder why they - I guess the 18th century wordmakers - stopped there?
Alien Loves Predator 2010
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In light of all of these lexical contributions, we are forced to go beyond H.L. Mencken (The American L.nguage, Supplement One, p. 330) and classify journalists in general, not just gossip-column journalists, as professional wordmakers.
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