Guys, I'm writing my MA thesis about novel formations (so-called nonce words) in both Polish and English, and since I'm Polish I cannot come up with English examples just as freely as I 'produce' Polish words. What I am exactly looking for are words which are possible in English, yet they do not appear in dictionaries and are limited to only creative language users, or they do not appear at all.
So, all ye dear native speakers of the English language wherever you roam, please, use your imagination and create me a few words so I can handle my share, finish the studies and enter the real world.
I'm not looking for compound as I can find thousands of them while sailing the Internet. I need words made by affixation, preferably prefixation as they are harder to think of. I have words like: regoogle or overspammed, which are not established words, yet they can be produced and understood by other speakers and they are produce by productive affixes of English, -re and -over respectively.
I need also words made by suffixes but not that badly as I need prefixed ones. My suffixed words are for example: onlyness, rainlessness, gamblinest, cutesiest.
I'm sure that you can think of or have heard some interesting words, and possibly some that don't have much to do with computers
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I'll be most grateful for any examples you give me!!!
Thank you,
Michal
So, all ye dear native speakers of the English language wherever you roam, please, use your imagination and create me a few words so I can handle my share, finish the studies and enter the real world.
I'm not looking for compound as I can find thousands of them while sailing the Internet. I need words made by affixation, preferably prefixation as they are harder to think of. I have words like: regoogle or overspammed, which are not established words, yet they can be produced and understood by other speakers and they are produce by productive affixes of English, -re and -over respectively.
I need also words made by suffixes but not that badly as I need prefixed ones. My suffixed words are for example: onlyness, rainlessness, gamblinest, cutesiest.
I'm sure that you can think of or have heard some interesting words, and possibly some that don't have much to do with computers

I'll be most grateful for any examples you give me!!!
Thank you,
Michal
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It seems to me that these words, at least in English, are usually created in a somewhat mocking spirit. Sometimes playful mockery, and sometimes more biting. I'll have to check the books on my shelf, but Tom Wolfe springs to mind as a writer who is given to this kind of thing.
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I got a question concerning non-resembling. Supposing you were not linguistically creative, how would you paraphrase this? Is not resembling used then or do you normally use resemble as a verb, as in "The boys don't resemble each other".
And btw: would that be okay to say: these not resembling boys instead of non-resembling boys?
Because the first option sounds kind of weird to my unnative (is there such a word?
Thanks
"Non-resembling" doesn't imply "each other." You'd still need a noun.
First - I was talking about a man who had broken up with his long-time girlfriend and describing how he'd told us about it. I said, "And then he said - I can't remember the exact phrase he used, but something assholey."
Another noun + y formation I thought of just now is a term you hear a lot on fashion and home decorating TV shows, "matchy-matchy ." ("If we use the plaid for the curtains, we should use something else for the bedspread and then yet another fabric for the chair. We don't want it to be too matchy-matchy.")
Second from last night - I asked the guests, who live fairly nearby, if they'd walked or driven to our house. I said, "When I saw you coming up the front walk, you were walking with so much verve." The husband of the other couple replied, "If we'd walked all the way from our house, we would have been pretty verveless by the time we got here, believe me."