Complete Definition of "thneed"

English

Etymology
Coined by Theodore Seuss "Dr. Seuss" Giesel in The Lorax (ISBN 0394823370)

Noun
thneed

  1. 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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