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pubilect

pubilect noun: the language of teenagers.

Noun

pubilect (countable and uncountable, plural pubilects)

  1. The language of teenagers.
    • Research on pubilects throughout the world shows that such terms have a very short lifespan. By comparison with vocabulary change in the language as a whole, which sometimes takes centuries, the rate of change in teen vocabularies is greatly accelerated.2000, Gianrenzo P. Clivio, Marcel Danesi, The Sounds, Forms, and Uses of Italian: An Introduction to Italian Linguistics, Toronto, O.N. […]: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 185

Forms of pubilect

pluralpubilects

Origin of pubilect

Coined by Italian semiotician Marcel Danesi in 1987, from pubi- (as in pubescent, puberty) + -lect.

Questions about pubilect

What does pubilect mean?
Pubilect means the language of teenagers.
What part of speech is pubilect?
Pubilect is a noun.
What is the plural of pubilect?
The plural of pubilect is pubilects.

Words near pubilect in the dictionary

  1. pubicides
  2. pubicly
  3. pubigerous
  4. pubikini
  5. pubikinis
  6. pubilect
  7. pubilects
  8. pubiotomies
  9. pubiotomy
  10. pubis
  11. pubkeeper

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