newcoin
English
Etymology
From new- + coin.
Verb
newcoin (third-person singular simple present newcoins, present participle newcoining, simple past and past participle newcoined)
- (transitive) Alternative form of new-coin
- 1700, William Congreve, The Way of the World:
- Item, I article that you continue to like your own face as long as I shall; and while it passes current with me, that you endeavour not to newcoin it.
- 1950, The Biologist - Volumes 33-36, page 4:
- Aside from the charlatanism which induced pseudoscholars to attempt to give worth to their lucubrations by the use of codes, ciphers, recondite allusions and newcoined words, there has been through the ages a disinclination on the part of scholars to endure the drudgery which leads to the ability to write decent English, ...
- 1986, The Blinsern Theoretic Research Team, Theoretic Papers - Volumes 4-6, page 38:
- The use of newcoined abusing epithets , such as "non dynamic", against theories of other than quantum field ones, does not solve any energy level problem.
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Derived terms
- newcoined