The transplant matters as much as rarity
Aniconism, apophenia, kayfabe, vranyo, Geheimnisträger, cicisbeo, pankration, mirliton-related vocabulary and innumerable technical or historical terms are interesting because of where they are moved, not because the corpus necessarily invented them.
The vocabulary routinely jumps disciplinary fences. A wrestling term can explain civic behavior; psychiatric or medical vocabulary can become institutional criticism; an occult term can become production language; fashion terminology can carry class information; a technical word can be turned into comedy or lyric percussion.
Against the “75th-grade reading level” caricature
The lexical surface can indeed become aggressively elevated or obscure, but the same work may immediately collapse into profanity, slang, phonetic babble or a stupid joke. Difficulty is therefore less a stable “reading level” than a register-switching system. The reader may need a dictionary for one clause and no literacy whatsoever for the next sound effect.
Editorial rule
The expanded lexicon now treats external or uncertain provenance as a positive category rather than an embarrassment. The right question is often not “did JQD invent this?” but “why did this particular word get dragged here?”
Indexed transplanted examples
False friends from the old dictionary
Several entries once filed as coinages turned out to have older lives. They stay visible here rather than vanishing.
| Form | Status | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Anaidea | Inherited / transplanted | Existing Greek anaideia/Anaidea: shamelessness, impudence or irreverence; the source itself tells the reader to search rather than presenting it as a new coinage. |
| predefer | Quoted-source vocabulary | Occurs inside a passage explicitly attributed to Christine Brooke-Rose; it is not a JQD coinage in this occurrence. |
| unmanuring | Quoted-source vocabulary | Occurs inside the same Christine Brooke-Rose quotation; it should not be counted as JQD neologia. |
| SPECULOPHILIA | Externally established exact form | The exact word predates this corpus in published criticism. Its local use remains interesting, but it is not safe to present as a JQD coinage. |
| Pornopticon | Externally established exact form | The exact term predates this corpus in published writing about pornography and surveillance. The local use may be independent or refunctioned. |
| Xenochroma | Externally established exact form / local semantic refunctioning | The exact form long predates the corpus in taxonomy/botany. JQD gives it a distinct local sense involving alien or beyond-ordinary color. |