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Minting a word because the dictionary hasn't caught up to your vibe yet.
means A newly invented word or phrase, coined to name something that didn't quite have a name yet.
from From 'coin,' which traces back through Old French 'coing' to Latin 'cuneus,' meaning wedge — the shape of the die used to stamp metal into money. Striking a coin and striking a new word both share that root sense of stamping something into fixed, official shape; by the 1500s English had already started using 'coin' and 'coinage' for minting new words, not just new money.
- shakespeare's hobby
- invented roughly 1700 words still in use
- fastest adoption
- internet slang can enter dictionaries within a year
- failure rate
- most coined words die within a generation, unused
- legal cousin
- literal coinage is why 'mint condition' means new