| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (II) Communication of Ideas |
| Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas |
| 2. Conventional Means |
| 1. Language generally |
| 563. Neology. |
| NOUN: | NEOLOGY, neologism; newfangled expression; caconym; barbarism; archaism, black letter, monkish Latin; corruption, missaying, antiphrasis; pseudology; idioticon. PLAY UPON WORDS, paronomasia; word play (wit) [See Wit]; double-entente [F.] (ambiguity) [See Equivocalness]; palindrome, paragram, clinch [now rare], pun; abuse of -language, - terms. DIALECT, brogue, patois, provincialism, broken English, Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism; Gypsy lingo, Romany. LINGUA FRANCA, pidgin or pigeon English; Chinook, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir, Swahili, Haussa, Volapük, Esperanto, Ido. JARGON, dog Latin, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English, chi-chi [Anglo-India]. colloquialism (figure of speech) [See Metaphor]; byword; technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, bat [Hind.], macaronics, St. Giles’s Greek, thieves’ Latin, peddler’s French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang. PSEUDONYM (misnomer) [See Misnomer]; Mr. So-and-so; “Sergeant What-is-name” [Kipling]; what d’ye call ’em, what’s his name, thingummy, thingamabob, thingummybob [all colloq.]; je ne sais quoi [F.]. NEOLOGIST, coiner of words. |
| VERB: | coin words; Americanize, Anglicize, Gallicize; sling the bat [slang, Anglo-Ind.]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | neologic, neological; archaic, rare, obsolescent; obsolete (old) [See Oldness]; colloquial, dialectal, dialectic or dialectical; slang, cant, flash, barbarous; Anglice [N L.]. |
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