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English
Etymology
Coined by Levi Budd, from his name Levi + -drome by analogy with palindrome.[1]
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Noun
levidrome (plural levidromes)
- (neologism) A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.
2017 October 15, Jack Knox, “This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’”, in Times Colonist, retrieved 28 January 2018:One classmate offered up "part" and "trap" as a levidrome on Friday.
2017 November 21, Camille Bains, “Six-year-old Victoria boy’s invented word gets support from William Shatner, Patricia Arquette”, in The Star:She always says to him, ‘You got any good levidromes for me today?’ The other day he said, ‘Yeah, I got stressed and desserts. And drawer and reward.’”
2018 January 29, “B.C. boy's invented word gaining traction, celebrity endorsements”, in CTV News:Since then, the levidrome has been gaining traction around the world. The Budd family has been inundated with pictures of school projects where students find levidromes.
2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data, page 53:Wherever sequential alphabets gained power, cultures became more transfixed by linear time. Change the order of the letters, and you get a new meaning: canoe is never mistaken for its anagram ocean. Map is not the same as its levidrome Pam.
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