Definitions

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  • noun A fabricated word coined to identify a new concept.

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Examples

  • Factoid sounds, to me like something a wordoid automatically generated because some nerdoid got a software glitchoid inside of it ...

    "factoid" Roger Sutton 2007

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  • Ex: "lite", found in Food Rules~M. Pollan

    website creates new words automagically.

    April 15, 2010