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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words, as by passing from one meaning of them to another.

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  1. n. rare Skill or cleverness in the coining of new words
  2. n. A skillfully or cleverly coined new word.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek λόγος (logos, "word") + Δαίδαλος (Daidalos, "Daedalus, a skilled craftsman of Ancient Greek mythology") + -y. (Wiktionary)

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  • pavonine Log`o`daed´a`ly
    n. 1. Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
    Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.
    logodaedaly
    Rare. a cunning with words; verbal legerdemain. Also logodaedalus. Jul 28, 2009

  • whichbe Arbitrary or capricious coinage of words. May 12, 2008

  • peritus "logodaedalus (Gk logos, 'word' + daedal, from Daedalus the mythical artist, thus) An artificer in words (e.g., a poet). Logodaedaly is verbal legerdemain.", J.A. Cuddon, A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Blackwell; 1998), p. 477. Feb 8, 2008

  • seanahan "playing with words", nothing people on Wordie would like, as evidenced by the only 2 lists which it appears on. Nov 8, 2007

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