I was going to ask about your social group’s neologisms but then looked the word up to make sure I was using it right and discovered that’s not what they’re called when they’re just used by one small group:
The most precise studies into language change and word formation, in fact, identify the process of a “neological continuum”: a nonce word is any single-use term that may or may not grow in popularity; a protologism is such a term used exclusively within a small group; a prelogism is such a term that is gaining usage but still not mainstream; and a neologism has become accepted or recognized by social institutions.
So! Are there new words your household or friend group have invented and started using? What are they?
Any you’ve heard somebody else using that you’ve adopted or detested?
I don’t know if you’re a programmer or not but “cruft” is a slang term in the software industry for the bits and pieces of bad code that creep into a program over time. You write something in a stupid but quick way because it needs to be done right now, and then instead of going back to fix it you have to move onto the next thing that’s needed right now, and so on. This creates cruft, which makes the software buggier and harder to work on.
No I’m not, but I love it! I bet maybe my husband overheard it being used by one of the machinists he used to work with and didn’t realize he absorbed it instead of inventing it.