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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An invented word, made up of two or more known words taken and combined without regard to etymological usage or rule, the object (which may not be consciously present in the inventor's mind) being to produce an absolutely new word, which shall not appear to be a compound or derivate of known words.

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