pompatus not in OED

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 5/20/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> 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)

I think you can count on "regift" making the cut. It's already in NOAD2.


--Ben Zimmer

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