Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words, as by passing from one meaning of them to another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare Skill or cleverness in the
coining of new words - noun A skillfully or cleverly coined new word.
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek λόγος (logos, "word") + Δαίδαλος (Daidalos, "Daedalus, a skilled craftsman of Ancient Greek mythology") + -y.
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Examples
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Although Time's editors were not in every instance necessarily responsible for the logodaedaly ascribed to them: the magazine served as the medium through which these coinages became known to millions.
seanahan commented on the word logodaedaly
"playing with words", nothing people on Wordie would like, as evidenced by the only 2 lists which it appears on.
November 8, 2007
peritus commented on the word logodaedaly
"logodaedalus (Gk logos, 'word' + daedal, from Daedalus the mythical artist, thus) An artificer in words (e.g., a poet). Logodaedaly is verbal legerdemain.", J.A. Cuddon, A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (Blackwell; 1998), p. 477.
February 9, 2008
whichbe commented on the word logodaedaly
Arbitrary or capricious coinage of words.
May 12, 2008
pavonine commented on the word logodaedaly
Log`o`daed´a`ly
n. 1. Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.
logodaedaly
Rare. a cunning with words; verbal legerdemain. Also logodaedalus.
July 29, 2009