Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Contemporary (2000–) ·2009
Jeggings
jeans leggings
- Meaning
- Leggings styled to resemble skinny jeans.
- Source words
- jeans + leggings
- Coined by
- fashion press
- Year
- 2009
Background
Entered the OED in 2011 — an unusually fast ascent from coinage to canon, driven by the fashion industry's need to name a category fast.
Contemporary (2000–)
Faster coinage, faster canonisation. Brexit and podcast both reached the OED within a decade of first use — historically rapid. Social media has made visibility, not invention, the rate-limiting step.
Two words, one coinage.
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