[Dixielandjazz] Neologism

[Laurence Swain]

Dan Augustine <ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

    Larry and other neologism-fans--
         I made it up.  I figured if 'callipygian' meant 
    "having beautifully proportioned buttocks", then a prefix 
    meaning 'bad' or 'abnormal' or 'impaired' ('dysa') followed 
    by 'pygian' ought to present an image of what happens to 
    someone's backside rudely prodded by a trombone slide.

Well, Dan, that's a relief, because one of the definitions of 
"neologism" that I found is

    ne·ol·o·gism (n-l-jzm)
    n. 

    A meaningless word used by a psychotic.


Present company excepted, of course.


Larry Swain