English
Etymology
Coined by Theodore Seuss "Dr. Seuss" Giesel in The Lorax (ISBN 0394823370)
Noun
thneed
- A multi-purpose object knitted from the tufts of the w:The Lorax|truffula tree.
Quotations
1978 However, for people who have not read The Lorax, thneed is a nonsense syllable which does not quite conform to English syllable structure rules. — John Higgins in Bulletin of the Language Association of Thailand
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