A new book out from Ricky Jay (Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians impels me to share the definition given for that title word your eye has no doubt already been drawn to: a Whimsiphusicon is, according to the book, a "theatrical neologism used to entice, or more likely confuse, the public."
And since I was wandering the online dictionaries ANYway, I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about neologisms, and was deeply amused (tho' not too surprised) to learn that they keep a running list of them which was just too amusing not to share.
Posted by gris at July 25, 2005 02:42 PM