In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And pretty much immediately after that, people started making their own words, smashing them together into hybrid puns. 

One of the most complex things about language is the speed at which it can change, and the ingenuity that goes into coining new terms and phrases. But in the linguistic world of the Internet - where brevity is the be all and end all - it's often about taking concepts and phrases, and reducing them to a single word. That's how we end up with so many portmanteaux, or blends as contemporary descriptivist linguists refer to them. 

The most well known are the unions of celebrity supercouples like Bennifer or Brangelina. But there are occasionally legitimate geopolitical ones as well; when the newly independent Republic of Tanganyika merged with Zanzibar in 1964, the nation state of Tanzania was formed. 

It's rare for words like these to cross over into such mainstream usage that they appear in the recognised and standardised dictionary, but their proliferation online means they've found a home on the web. UrbanDictionary is the Internet's most popular source for finding the definitions of the newest words being used to flame hate speech in comment sections or fuel fandoms of British opposition leaders. 

Now a graphic designer has taken 24 of the newest entries into the UrbanDictionary and added their meaning, meaning, at the very least, you'll be primed for your next game of Scrabble. Check out the gallery below: