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From our old friend Dante Shepherd, “Defining words that aren’t real. Yet.”  E.g…

Head-bashery (noun): like head-banging, but done by someone with no energy and rhythm; in effect, pathetic head-banging.

Juxtapolitician (noun): a political figure who automatically denounces the stance, proposal, beliefs, or achievements of his/her political opposite, just because he/she is the political opposite.

Meanderthal (noun): one who has failed the driver’s exam multiple times.

Lots more experimental lexicography at The Oxford English Fictionary…

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As we noodle new nouns, we might send consoling thoughts to Philo T. Farnsworth; he was born on this date in 1906.  As a Utah schoolboy, Farnsworth began to develop the design of the electronic system that became, in 1927, the world’s first all-electronic television system.  In 1931, RCA’s David Sarnoff tried to acquire Farnsworth’s patents, with the stipulation that the inventor join RCA as an employee.  When Farnsworth refused, Sarnoff backed a rival technology, sued Farnsworth, and used his considerable political clout to have the RCA system declared the standard.

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