pompatus not in OED

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, James Harbeck wrote:

> I note that the OED does not have "pompatus".

This is certainly shocking.  It will be interesting to see whether the
following other pop-culture neologisms (Wikipedia's term) make the cut:

sideboob (Family Guy)
regifting (Seinfeld)

Fred Shapiro


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