Fringebaiting
I’m blanking on the proper term for deliberately coined words like this, but in any case, I like it. And it should prove useful beyond left-right politics.
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The word is neologism, which I was entertained to discover is a reasonably old word itself. The OED's first citation is from 1800.
To me, sniglets are more for word play than actual use.
Neologism is it. Thanks, Nat!
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Is *sniglet* the term you're looking for? That was the name that came from the series of book full of "words that aren't found in the dictionary, but should be."