单词 | word-coiner |
释义 | > as lemmasword-coiner word-coiner n. ΚΠ 1791 ‘P. Pindar’ Rights of Kings 20 This state of man [sc. cuckoldom]..Is not a situation of betweenity, As some word-coiners are dispos'd to call't. 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 103 It is far too common, now-a-days, for young men, directly on being made free of a magazine, or of a newspaper, to commence word-coiners. 1935 Vanity Fair Nov. 38/1 There appears to be little leakage of their vernacular into even so ambitious a word-coiner as Variety. 2004 Independent 28 July 8/5 Hopkins, the great word-coiner, had his own expression for the intensity of existence of things, ‘inscape’. < as lemmas |
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