wackaging

wackaging noun: product packaging that uses quirky and eye-catching text or images to attract the buyer.

Noun

wackaging (uncountable)

(informal, neologism) Product packaging that uses quirky and eye-catching text or images to attract the buyer.
- Laidback labelling is here to stay. However normalised "wackaging" becomes, I just can't shake the feeling that talking food is best left to toddlers. Lucie Bright of Innocent is probably right that this cultural lightening up is, broadly, a good thing. But must we label food in such a...2014 March 25, Sophy Grimshaw, The Guardian
- A mash up of wacky and packaging, wackaging is a way of marketing which makes everything 'such fun'! Or, in the case of dog food marketing, such natural, wholesome, everything-in-the-garden-is-rosy fun. That can of food you're serving up? From the picture on the side, you'd think it was lovingly...2016, Kate Bendix, The Dog Diet: Eight weeks to a happier, healthier dog

However normalised "wackaging" becomes, I just can't shake the feeling that talking food is best left to toddlers.2014 March 25, Sophy Grimshaw, The Guardian:
A mash up of wacky and packaging, wackaging is a way of marketing which makes everything 'such fun'!2016, Kate Bendix, The Dog Diet: Eight weeks to a happier, healthier dog:

Blend of wacky + packaging.

What does wackaging mean?: Wackaging means product packaging that uses quirky and eye-catching text or images to attract the buyer.
How do you use wackaging in a sentence?: However normalised "wackaging" becomes, I just can't shake the feeling that talking food is best left to toddlers.
What part of speech is wackaging?: Wackaging is a noun.

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