A newly-coined word is one which has never been even in local use, but is adopted by the poet himself.

Interactive technology probably comes closest, at least until some newly-coined expression - infoware is a recent one - takes hold.

Nothing set a newly-coined 'teenager's pulse racing than the thought of an enthusiastic sock-hop.

Meanwhile, there is even a newly-coined term for the deprivation suffered by a generation of children being raised indoors: "nature deficit disorder".

The Internet was abuzz with a newly-coined word, 'noynoying.'

Where a newly-coined word or a technical term that is not generally accepted has to be used, such term shall be explained.

Cosmopolitan Magazine in a February, 1896 article on Guilbert described the term as a "newly-coined and specific title".

An Israeli psychologist on television used the newly-coined terms "hypervigilance" or "ambivigilance" to describe the heightened state of wariness and caution that most Israelis practice just now.

Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical, or ornamental, or newly-coined, or lengthened, or contracted, or altered.

And when the full moon had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.

These, and other newly-coined words and phrases, are being voted on by Australians as part of a Word of the Year 2007 competition, run by Macquarie's Dictionary.

Elias' mon- archy was but newly-coined, and Erkynlandall of Osten Ard, it seemedhad come out of a long winter of age into a season of headlong youth.

Rather it applies to words newly-coined or current among particular groups, such as adolescents, soldiers and students, and also, to some extent to the public in general, and used intentionally to circumvent standard, accepted forms.

But Russians are keen to use newly-coined names, in a country with a notoriously short supply of common first names where it sometimes seems difficult to find a man who is not called Vladimir or Sergei.

Muspilli is usually analysed as a two-part compound, with well over 20 different etymologies proposed, depending on whether the word is seen as a survival from old Germanic, pagan times, or as a newly-coined Christian term originating within the German-speaking area.

Sources yesterday recalled the first casualty of Alexander's reign at Nine being long-time company CEO David Leckie, who was axed from his post in 2002, allowing Alexander to take the newly-coined title of PBL CEO.

It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might (even accidentally) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule: sentences, moreover, whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components.

The Global Language Monitor, which tracks trends in language, said in a recent press release that the newly-coined word "Tebowing" has come to mean "the act of taking a knee in prayer during an athletic contest," and that the widespread popularity of the neologism "has seldom been equaled."

Even so, there is no denying that many of these "successes" have meant a callous and insensitive transfer of taxes and newly-coined levies onto a systematically impoverished population, a process which – for eight years now – the Slovak government has regarded as the price people have to pay for a brighter future.