logodaedaly

== English == === Alternative forms === logodædaly === Etymology === From Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word”) + Δαίδαλος (Daídalos, “Daedalus, a skilled craftsman of Ancient Greek mythology”) + -y. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˌloʊ.ɡoʊˈdi.də.li/ === Noun === logodaedaly (countable and uncountable, plural logodaedalies) (rare) Cleverness or skill in the coining of new words. (rare) A cleverly or skilfully coined new word. ca. 1950 Richard Percival Lister: Defenestration. Yet More Comic and Curious Verse. Penguin Books. 1959 ...During his flight, he said, he commenced an interesting train of speculationOn why there happened to be such a word as defenestration. There is not, he said, a special word for being rolled down a roof into a gutter;There is no verb to describe the action of beating a man to death with a putter;No adjective exists to qualify a man bound to the buffer of the 12.10 to Ealing,No abstract noun to mollify a man hung upside down by his ankles from the ceiling. Why, then, of all the possible offences so distressing to humanitarians,Should this one alone have caught the attention of the verbarians?I concluded (said McIndoe) that the incidence of logodaedaly was purely adventitious... ==== Related terms ==== logodaedalian logodaedalist ==== Translations ====