"wordoid" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: wordoids [plural]
Etymology: From word + -oid. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|word|oid}} word + -oid Head templates: {{en-noun}} wordoid (plural wordoids)
  1. A fabricated word coined to identify a new concept. Related terms: neologism, portmanteau

Inflected forms

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "word",
        "3": "oid"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From word + -oid.",
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    {
      "form": "wordoids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2006, David Sims, in First Coffee for St. Valentine's Day, 2006 http://blog.tmcnet.com/telecom-crm/2006/02/14/first-coffee-for-st-valentines-day-2006.asp\nWell, I guess there's a new wordoid we all have to endure: infotainment."
        },
        {
          "text": "2006, James A. Stewart, in Laurel And Hardy movie review https://web.archive.org/web/20060909082844/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/laurelhardycol.php\nAs Leonard Maltin notes in commentary, a more modern character appropriated that little wordoid."
        },
        {
          "text": "2005, Pyramus, in Little or Nothing http://cephalogenic.blogspot.com/2005/08/little-or-nothing.html\nI can't get away from the word, or wordoid, \"miniscule\"."
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, Daniel J. Stern, in rec.autos.tech http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.tech/msg/6266d1cea8dd61ba\n\"Gage\", like \"flammable\", is a fabricated wordoid created on the assumption, not entirely without merit, that people are too stupid to read, understand and pronounce the properly-spelled word (\"inflammable\", in the latter case)."
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, Eirik Johnson, in A New Twist on Noise https://web.archive.org/web/20060913123513/http://linux.depaul.edu/archive/depaul-lug/2003-03/msg00309.html\nMeantime, virii is a perfectly good wordoid, that's right, wordoid. It isn't a word, it just resembles one closely enough that nobody cares!"
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        },
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        }
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    }
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}
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      },
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          "text": "2006, David Sims, in First Coffee for St. Valentine's Day, 2006 http://blog.tmcnet.com/telecom-crm/2006/02/14/first-coffee-for-st-valentines-day-2006.asp\nWell, I guess there's a new wordoid we all have to endure: infotainment."
        },
        {
          "text": "2006, James A. Stewart, in Laurel And Hardy movie review https://web.archive.org/web/20060909082844/http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/laurelhardycol.php\nAs Leonard Maltin notes in commentary, a more modern character appropriated that little wordoid."
        },
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          "text": "2005, Pyramus, in Little or Nothing http://cephalogenic.blogspot.com/2005/08/little-or-nothing.html\nI can't get away from the word, or wordoid, \"miniscule\"."
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, Daniel J. Stern, in rec.autos.tech http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.tech/msg/6266d1cea8dd61ba\n\"Gage\", like \"flammable\", is a fabricated wordoid created on the assumption, not entirely without merit, that people are too stupid to read, understand and pronounce the properly-spelled word (\"inflammable\", in the latter case)."
        },
        {
          "text": "2003, Eirik Johnson, in A New Twist on Noise https://web.archive.org/web/20060913123513/http://linux.depaul.edu/archive/depaul-lug/2003-03/msg00309.html\nMeantime, virii is a perfectly good wordoid, that's right, wordoid. It isn't a word, it just resembles one closely enough that nobody cares!"
        }
      ],
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        "A fabricated word coined to identify a new concept."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wordoid"
}

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