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cromulent

adjective • fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic or authentic.

Nonce form coined on The Simpsons (“Lisa The Iconoclast”). The word has gained a loose currency in linguistics to describe words that sound like a natural word in a given language. Original quote:

Mrs. Krabappel: I never heard the word embiggen until I moved to Springfield.

Ms. Hoover: I don’t know why. It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

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   I like this word. I need to follow this Tumblr.

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    Funny, I would expect “cromulent” to mean something along the lines of “cthonic”.

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    Filial Piety: I believe ‘embiggen’ is...lot of dictionaries now.

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