Words at Play : Top 10 Authorisms
Definition:
: a designer, promoter, or follower of the latest fashions
About the Word:
This word was created by writer Stephen Fried in his 1993 book Thing of Beauty. More recently Fried published a mea culpa in which he said of his neologism: "I suppose I should apologize to all users of language for my crime against nomenclature. I could also apologize to my wife, a writer and my editor, who lobbied loudly against the word when I invented it—and later came to believe that if we had only copyrighted it, we'd be fabulously wealthy by now."
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