March 3, 2014

Frankenword

Вот оно слово-король неологизмов. Да и какая замечательная рекурсия!

frankenword

n. A word created from the parts of two or more existing words, particularly when the resulting term is awkward or unsightly. Also: franken-word. [Frankenstein +word]

Example Citations:

Use is probably the ultimate arbiter and we‘ll see whether newer frankenwords like FRENEMY, COCACOLONISATION and FAUXHAWK become as unremarkable and unobjectionable as BRUNCH, SMOG and MOTORCADE — or whether they’re destined to the same dustbin as the nineteenth-century INSINUENDO and Virginia Woolf’s SCROLLOPING, which to my ears has a sound that’s too fun to denote “heavily intricate”.

—Alan Connor, “Crossword roundup: chillaxing with my frenemies,” The Guardian, October 8, 2012