WordPlay: Brand Names, Trade Names, and Trademarks
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The LexiConnexxions analysis has identified many BRAND NAMES, TRADE NAMES, AND TRADEMARKS in the Spelling Bee lexicon.
This WordPlay report compiles and defines Bee words that are derived from brand names, trade names, and trademarks.
Words that are based on brand names are also eponyms, and are therefore also indexed in WORDPLAY: EPONYMS.
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BRAND NAMES, TRADE NAMES, AND TRADEMARKS in the Spelling Bee lexicon
AUTOMAT: M-W capitalizes (NOAD does not) and says “service mark.” Used for a cafeteria in which food is obtained especially from vending machinesBAGGIE: a usually small, clear plastic bag; M-W does not give word origin; Collins says from “Baggies, a trademark for such bags”CANOLA: Canola was originally a trademark name of the Rapeseed Association of Canada, and the name was a condensation of "Can" from Canada and "OLA" meaning "Oil, low acid" but is now a generic term for edible varieties of rapeseed oil in North America and Australasia.CAPLET: a capsule-shaped medicinal tablet, from capsule + tablet. NOTE: The name Caplets was formerly a U.S. registered trademark.CAPTCHA: a test to prevent spamming software from accessing a website by requiring visitors to the site to solve a simple puzzle in order to gain access. From [formerly trademarked] Completely Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (with deliberate pun on “capture”)COLA: or less commonly kola, a carbonated soft drink colored usually with caramel and flavored usually with extracts from kola nuts, from Coca-Cola, a trademarkDIABOLO: a game in which an hourglass-shaped top is balanced and spun on a string stretched between the tips of two sticks; also: the top used in this game; from Diabolo, a trademarkGOOGLE: to use the Google search engine, from Google, trademark for a search engineGOOGLED: to use the Google search engine, from Google, trademark for a search engineGOOGLING: to use the Google search engine, from Google, trademark for a search engineGUNK: filthy, sticky, or greasy matter, from Gunk, trademark for a cleaning solventKOLA: variant spelling of cola, a carbonated soft drink colored usually with caramel and flavored usually with extracts from kola nuts, from Coca-Cola, a trademarkMACE: to attack with the liquid Mace [the product Mace is a trademark, capitalized]MACED: to attack with the liquid Mace [the product Mace is a trademark, capitalized]MACING: to attack with the liquid Mace [the product Mace is a trademark, capitalized]MIMEO: a mimeographed publication; from mimeograph, a duplicator for making many copies that utilizes a stencil through which ink is pressed; also, a verb, to mimeograph; from Mimeograph, a trademarkMOXIE: energy, pep (woke up full of moxie); courage, determination (it takes … moxie to take courageous action); know-how (was impressed with his musical moxie); from Moxie, a trademark for a soft drinkORGANZA: a sheer dress fabric (as of silk or nylon) resembling organdy (a very fine transparent muslin with a stiff finish); probably alteration of Lorganza, a trademarkPAYOLA: undercover or indirect payment (as to a disc jockey) for a commercial favor (as for promoting a particular recording); from pay + -ola (as in Pianola, trademark for a player piano)PIANOLA: a piano containing a mechanism by which it plays automatically; from Pianola, formerly a trademarkPOGO: to dance by hopping up and down, from pogo stick, from Pogo, a trademark [for the original metal pogo stick] POGOED: to dance by hopping up and down, from pogo stick, from Pogo, a trademark [for the original metal pogo stick] POGOING: to dance by hopping up and down, from pogo stick, from Pogo, a trademark [for the original metal pogo stick] QUAALUDE: a tablet or capsule of methaqualone, a sedative and hypnotic nonbarbiturate drug C16H14N2O that is habit-forming, from Quaalude, a trademarkROTOTILL: to till or plow (soil) with a rototiller, a cultivating implement with engine-powered rotating blades used to lift and turn over soil. From Rototiller, a trademarkTARMAC: a tarmacadam road, apron, or runway; from Tarmac, a trademark, which is a shortening of tarmacadam, from tar + macadam, after John Loudon McAdam †1836, Scottish civil engineer who introduced this method of road constructionTELETYPE: or less commonly Teletype: a printing device resembling a typewriter that is used to send and receive telephonic signals —formerly a U.S. registered trademark; called also teletypewriter; also, a message sent by a teletype machineTELETYPED*: or less commonly Teletype: a printing device resembling a typewriter that is used to send and receive telephonic signals —formerly a U.S. registered trademark; called also teletypewriter; also, a message sent by a teletype machine
BRAND NAMES, TRADE NAMES, AND TRADEMARKS in the Spelling Bee lexicon
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MIMEOMOXIEORGANZAPAYOLAPIANOLAPOGOPOGOEDPOGOINGQUAALUDEROTOTILLTARMACTELETYPETELETYPED*