Modern languages have vocabularies that are derived from diverse backgrounds, and improper nouns occasionally enter popular usage simply because they have been created or re-used in a meaningful way by a sufficiently popular show, performer, group, or website. A word created in popular culture will often be a neologism, but this is not always the case, such as in the case of embiggened.
Websites[]
Wiki: Wikipedia
TV Shows[]
Cromulent: The Simpsons
Embiggened: The Simpsons
Literature[]
Grok: Robert A. Heinlein's 'Stranger In A Strange Land'
Otaku: Manga Burikko
"People"[]
Misunderestimate: George W Bush
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