fend:  fend:
To strive, to struggle.
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in ... I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 15 (1929)
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protologism: protologism:
A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become accepted into the language; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet in general use.
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