I love today's word from the OED

[conuly]

https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/64193431

And since I'm posting one dictionary-related link I may as well post another:

https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2021/11/08/i-am-begging-you-to-learn-how-dictionaries-work/

Comments

[pauamma]

Interesting. I got the impression - maybe in the Language Log discussion, as that's where I found out about it - that it meant "(of a neologism or recent coinage) having a self-evident meaning".

[deird1]

I'd agree with your definition.

I've had a closer look at the quotes in that dictionary entry.

[pauamma]

The first, in 1996, is a transcript of the Simpsons episode itself with two occurences; one ("Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield. Ms.Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.") is consistent with either meaning but the other ("Skinner: Yes, he's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.") points to the dictionary's. Judging what I've read so far of
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.douglas-adams/c/wdforr8uMfs/m/wU6Q3_6BDAAJ (in 2000), part of the second is just a reference to that episode, following someone else's use of "embiggen", so it's unclear and could be either so far, but I'll reread that whole thread to make sure. It's only with the 3rd (2007), 11 years after the initial coinage, that the intended meaning obviously settles on the dictionary's. That, to me, has all the hallmarks of a made-up meaningless word that was later imbued with meaning through consensus settling on one of the possible interpretations, and I find that utterly fascinating.