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lexpionage

noun

Etymology

Blend of lexicon + espionage.

  1. derived from *spehōną✻ — “to spy, peek, peer”
  2. derived from *spehōn✻ — “to spy”
  3. derived from *spehō✻ — “spy”
  4. derived from espion — “spy”
  5. derived from espionner — “to spy”
  6. borrowed from espionnage
  7. compounded as lexpionage — “lexicon + espionage”

Definitions

  1. The process of looking for new words and/or phrases.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lexpionage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA