In England, a singlet is a wife-beater/tank top. I had to look twice at this one.
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| \SNIG-lit\ |
noun
1. any word coined for something that has no specific name. |
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Author (and actor-comedian) Rich Hall defines a sniglet as "any word that doesn't appear in a dictionary but should," which makes sniglet itself a sniglet.
-- Richard Lederer, The Miracle of Language, 1991 |
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