Aspiratage
From open-dictionary.com - the free dictionary.
The word on this page appears to be a protologism.
Wiktionary discourages individual articles on words that are "protologisms" (newly created words that are not yet generally accepted as part of the language). Please see Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion. If there are no objections within a resonable time, the significant contents of this page will be added to Wiktionary:List of protologisms, and this page will be deleted.
If you believe that this word meets the criteria for inclusion in Wiktionary, please note this on Wiktionary:Requests for deletion. If you have independent quotations immediately available, preferably from widely-published sources, please add a ==Quotations== section citing them, remove this notice, and note this on Requests for Deletion. Do not, however, simply invent examples for this purpose. Invented examples are fine for illustrating usage in a definition, but not for showing that a word has been used independently.
| Table of contents |
English
Etymology
Coined by Daniel C. Boyer. French aspirateur (vacuum cleaner), presumably related to Latin verb aspirare + suffix -age
Noun
aspiratage
- A surrealist method in which impressions are made in the pile of carpeting by the movement of a vacuum cleaner, or the carpeting with its impressions that are made using this method.
Translations
- French: aspiratage m
- German: Aspiratage f
- Russian: аспиратaж
French
Noun
aspiratage m
- aspiratage
German
Noun
Aspiratage f
- aspiratage
This word (or phrase) is a protologism, a word which has only recently been devised. Be aware that this word may not be in wide use, and might even have been just added here at Wiktionary by a user who thought there should be such a word. However, you might not wish to be overly shy in trying out such words in speech or writing since all languages have developed more expressive vocabulary because a few people first decided to be creative in using a word that they felt "should be" a word. In using such a word, you could even refer people back to the corresponding page here at Wiktionary to assist them in finding the definition of the new word. You can add your own words at Wiktionary's Neologisms:unstable page.
