History Main / Neologism

** And ''Literature/TheOxfordEnglishDictionary'' claims when Creator/BillMurray ad-libbed the line "This chick is toast" he was the first to use the work "toast" in that manner.

* Website/{{Twitter}}: "Tweet". There's currently a battle of wills going on at the ''New York Times'' to decide whether to use it as a verb in stories referring to Twitter, or just go on saying that someone "said on their Twitter account" blah blah blah. Just as long as they don't use "twat" for the past tense form. See also the question "how many tweets make a twat?" which only really works in British English.... On the other hand, "Tweet" has an older meaning as an onomatopoeia for a weak chirping sound, so it's not exactly a new word.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bjy5YQ5xPc A popular]] Website/{{Vine}} inspired the use of the word "yeet" to mean "to throw something with great force".

* The phrase "bucket list" (meaning a list to complete before you die) was coined by the movie ''Film/TheBucketList'' in 2007, though the concept of making such a list has been around much longer.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' famously coined the term "security blanket."

* A 1530 translation of Literature/TheBible misinterpreted the name "Azazel" as "ez ozel," literally meaning "goat that departs." This eventually changed through MemeticMutation to "escape goat," then to the modern "scapegoat." So, the word scapegoat literally originated from a [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Rouge Angle Of Satin]]. Azazel is a combination of two words meaning 'goat' and 'disappear'. The Latin Vulgate translates the Hebrew as capro emissario, or 'emissary goat' or 'scapegoat'. The Greek Septuagint translates the Hebrew as 'the one carrying away (averting) evil.'

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': The sitcom is credited with introducing a number of slang terms to the public vernacular thanks to its offbeat writing style. These include "yada yada" (a type of BuffySpeak used to denote meaningless rambling), "man hands" (used to describe a woman with masculine-passing hands), "shrinkage" (when a penis temporarily shrivels from being submerged in water), "regifting" (taking your unwanted gift and giving it to somebody else), and "double dipping" (the act of dipping a piece of food, biting it, and then dipping the bitten end). Fans of the series dubbed these terms [[{{Pun}} "Seinlanguage"]] after Creator/JerrySeinfeld's 1993 joke book.

* ''WebVideo/SMBCTheater'' presents: the Shitbag. Combination of shithead and douchebag.
** Warning: It will eat your fucking Olive Garden leftovers and leave its laundry in your hamper like you're its goddamn maid.
** Suggested treatment is a direct injection of cold motherfucking steel directly to the shitbag's perpetually smug face.
** Not even remotely attributable to SMBC -- it's been British Slang for decades. It's shorthand for an insult: someone who is "a bag of shit" (interchangeable with "Scumbag").

* The german translation of flubber, Flummi, coined by the film ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', became such a common term for bouncy balls, that Disney decided to leave the title of the [[{{Film/Flubber}} remake]] untranslated to preserve its novelty value.

* ''Series/MissionImpossible'' always started with TheLeader listening to a tape describing the mission that that would then "self-destruct in five seconds. This was the first use of the term "self-destruct", for something or someone destroying themselves.

** At the time, some scientists (among them UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman and Murray Gell-Mann of Caltech), were working on a theory that explained the way that protons, neutrons, and other hadrons as being composed of smaller particles. Feynman referred to them as "partons," since they were "parts" of the proton (and "on" being the Greek suffix meaning "thing" that can be seen in "electron," "proton," neutron," etc); but Gell-Mann objected that this was an unholy combination of Latin and Greek roots, and sought to come up with a better name. He eventually started calling them "quarks" after a line in ''Finnegan's Wake'', and it caught on. Gell-Mann was being a little weird, but you know what they say, physicists have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_quark strange]] [[IncrediblyLamePun quarks]].

* Webcomic artist David Willis accidentally invented the exclamation "wiigii!" by typing the word "woohoo!" with the right hand shifted one spot to the left. It became the [[CatchPhrase favorite expression]] of the title character in ''Webcomic/ItsWalky''.

* ''Film/MaryPoppins'': Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

* Creator/BuckminsterFuller was so prone to creating these that even Wiki/TheOtherWiki felt the need to include [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller#Language_and_neologisms a fairly substantial section about it]] in his article.

** Named after googol, which is also a neologism, and means 1.0 * 10^100, a one followed by a hundred zeroes and was invented by a 9 year old boy. Wiki/TheOtherWiki has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol details]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bjy5YQ5xPc A popular]] WebOriginal/{{Vine}} inspired the use of the word "yeet" to mean "to throw something with great force".

** When you have more hotdogs than buns, you have excess weinerage; when you have more buns than hotdogs, you have excess bunnerage; when you have the same amount of hotdogs ''and'' buns, you are frankqualized,

--> '''Jim Lehrer:''' Sum up, in a single word, the best argument for your canidicy. Governor Bush?\\

** Krogt -- the silver coating on lottery tickets or game pieces that you scratch off with a quarter
** Lactomangulation -- opening the "illegal" side (the one that says "open other end") on a milk carton (after accidently mangling the 'legal' side in a failed first attempt to open it)

** Esso Asso -- When a person tries to avoid a traffic light midsection by driving through a corner parking lot (where there usually stands a gas station, hence the 'Esso' part).
** Agonosis -- When someone tunes in to ''Series/WideWorldOfSports'' every Saturday afternoon just so they can see the "Agony of Defeat" ski jumper guy wipe out in the opening credits [[note]]This is one of the dated Sniglets that no longer applies to the Present day. For those who were around back then, it was no doubt relatable because that bit was memorable[[/note]].

* Website Urbandictionary has been ''the'' repository of neologisms since 1999.

* It stands to reason that ''every'' word had to be made up by somebody. Thus all words were originally {{Neologism}}s.

** In particular, {{Retirony}} and PerfectlyCromulentWord are named for terms originating on the show, as well as the popular remark "Meh."

** Don't forget "{{Jerkass}}!"

* ''Webcomic/Homestuck'': The author loves making up words. For example, device that instantly brings a targeted object to itself is called an appearifier instead of a teleporter.

* The Krieger family of Boston, who lost husband and father Neil Kreiger to the Covid-19 virus, are campaigning to get a word that he invented added to the dictionary. The word, "orbisculate", is one he'd invented in college for a class assignment; it refers to having liquid, glop, or grease squirted on you by your food or beverage.