wordoid

2003, Daniel J. Stern, in rec.autos.tech http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.tech/msg/6266d1cea8dd61ba "Gage", like "flammable", is a fabricated wordoid created on the assumption, not entirely without merit, that people are too stupid to read, understand and pronounce the properly-spelled word ("inflammable", in the latter case).

Meantime, virii is a perfectly good wordoid, that's right, wordoid. It isn't a word, it just resembles one closely enough that nobody cares!

I can't get away from the word, or wordoid, "miniscule".

Well, I guess there's a new wordoid we all have to endure: infotainment.

As Leonard Maltin notes in commentary, a more modern character appropriated that little wordoid.