# Neologisms: Made up words from fiction and other sources

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**Created:** [March 3, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/neologisms-made-up-words-from-fiction-and-other-sources/25547 "2019-03-03T14:08:43Z")\
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Over at [Gallery Stack 3.6.1 - #29 by Elixir](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-stack-3-6-1/25504/29) the conversation has moved off topic

The question was asked:

> [@Gallery Stack 3.6.1](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-stack-3-6-1/25504/29):
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> Side note – wonder if there’s a site out there with a dictionary of made up sci-fi words like grok? Gorram, frak, shiny, kipple, TANSTAAFL, Shazbot, schway, etc, etc…

The answer is … A few. One place to start might be [The International Dictionary of Neologisms.](Https://neologisms.us/dictionary.html)