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A real word? Let me ask you this. Can you use it in a sentence so that other people understand what you mean? If the answer is Yes, then it is a real word. Slang words are real words, they're just informal words.

I know that isn't what you mean, but let me put it another way. Even if it isn't a real word yet, chances are it will be. Eventually.

Most of the words in the English language were simply made up. It's just that they were made up so long ago that people forgot they were once 'pretend words,' as if that's possible. Take, for instance, the words 'burbled' and 'chortled.' I know for a fact they are in the dictionary, and are probably considered advanced vocabulary. My Microsoft Word Processor recognizes them as words, and can actually give me synonyms.

What you may not know is that those words were made up by Lewis Caroll for his poem Jabberwocky.

My point is, if you want 'swanky' to be a word, use it like one, and it is.

Swanky is a proper word ( probably derived from an Indo-European root sweng- ), meaning imposingly fashionable, ostentatious. But remember: slang words are "real" in the sense that they mean something intelligible. It is nonsense words like superfragicabalistic and runcible that are not "real" because they do not have meaning.

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