pubilect

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noun

The language of teenagers.

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Meanings

nounpubilect (countable and uncountable, plural pubilects)

plural pubilects

  1. countableuncountableThe language of teenagers.

    Research on pubilects throughout the world shows that such terms have a very short lifespan. By comparison with vocabulary change in the language as a whole, which sometimes takes centuries, the rate of change in teen vocabularies is greatly accelerated.

    2000, Gianrenzo P. Clivio, Marcel Danesi, The Sounds, Forms, and Uses of Italian: An Introduction to Italian Linguistics, Toronto, O.N. […]: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 185

Origin

Coined by Italian semiotician Marcel Danesi in 1987, from pubi- (as in pubescent, puberty) + -lect.

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APA

pubilect. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pubilect

MLA

“pubilect.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pubilect. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pubilect,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pubilect.

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