Hellanonagon
hél⋅la⋅nòn⋅a⋅gon
-noun
- A polygon with a significantly large quantity of sides.
Origin:
2009; part of the set of numbers and other members of the imaginary math I use as descriptors in casual speech (eg. twenty-eleven, thirty-eleven, kajillion).
This word popped in my head after a job interview yesterday involving a Google Maps API question. Walking downtown I was reviewing what was discussed, and was trying to come up with the name for a twenty-sided polygon. I got caught on thinking it was an awkward-to-say “icosatagon” (turns out it’s the simpler “icosagon”) and instead I spontaneously defaulted to hellanonagon, since 20 was just an arbitrary number in this case anyway.
