Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Neologism

Nouns
  • neology, neologism
  • newfangled expression, nonce expression
  • back-formation
  • caconym
  • barbarism. archaism, black letter, monkish Latin. corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis. pun, paranomasia, play upon words
  • word play etc. (wit) Wit
  • palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch
  • abuse of language, abuse of terms. dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois
  • provincialism, regionalism, localism
  • broken English, lingua franca
  • Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism
  • Americanism
  • Gypsy lingo, Romany
  • pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English
  • Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir. dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish
  • confusion of tongues, Babel
  • babu English, chi-chi. figure of speech etc. (metaphor) Metaphor
  • byword. colloquialism, informal speech, informal language. substandard language, vernacular. vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity. jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot
  • St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang. pseudology. pseudonym etc. (misnomer) Misnomer
  • Mr. So-and-so
  • wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name
  • thingummy, thingumbob
  • coiner of words.
Verbs
  • coin words, coin a term
  • backform
  • Americanize, Anglicize.
Adjectives
  • neologic, neological
  • archaic
  • obsolete etc. (old) Oldness
  • colloquial
  • Anglice.