1 definition by Emyth
1. A person who creates coinage, as in making the physical currency;
2. A person who coins or mints new words that catch on and enjoy general usage. NOTE: Just as with money (the origin of the metaphor) there are legitimate coiners whose product has value...and there are counterfeiters who produce cheap, fake, debased words that devalue the language.
2. A person who coins or mints new words that catch on and enjoy general usage. NOTE: Just as with money (the origin of the metaphor) there are legitimate coiners whose product has value...and there are counterfeiters who produce cheap, fake, debased words that devalue the language.
"They sang Kipling's 'The Coiner' last night; it was great - what with all that clinking clanking percussion..."
"That Rehka, what a coiner... She's making up words all the time!"
"That Rehka, what a coiner... She's making up words all the time!"
by Emyth February 3, 2010