Sure and there's nothin' wrong with new words--that's how the language evolves! Problem is using them online where you can't explain instantly if folks go "Huh?"
I guess I assumed you were using it as a neologism on purpose, rather than thinking it was legit. As you've found, it's "not a word" in that none of the sources, including Urban Dictionary, seem to know it. But also as you note, "now it's something"; indeed, Google Verbatim finds 43 hits, plus duplicates, although I daresay none of them appear to be using it to mean what you did. Most are likely typos, but my favorite is this one: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/to-the-great-beyond-space-empires.552865/page-2 How's this for thread drift? On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 2:54 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought about protesting at "made-up", then decided to ignore it. Last, > and best, I investigated. > > I don't think ~I~ made it up; I've had the word in my vocabulary as long > as I can remember. If asked, I'd have said I must have read it somewhere. > > But my spell checker didn't recognize it Friday, I now remember. No web > source found a reference to the word. Even Wiktionary is innocent of it. > I still think it's a better coinage than "facetiousness", but I guess I > have to acknowledge that it's not standard -- nor even substandard. It's > nothing. > > Well, it was nothing before. Now it's something :). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
