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Woogle, Slumbrage, Crambitious: Words That Should Exist, But Don't

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Sometimes the perfect word hasn’t yet been invented, so you have to do it yourself. Writer Lizzie Skurnick has written a new book of words she’s coined, including woogle, slumbrage, and crambitious. Tom Hall finds out what they mean.

The book is called That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling and Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World.

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