Blend ofanagram +mnemonic; coined byScrabble player Bob Lipton.
anamonic (pluralanamonics)
- Amnemonic used for recalling lists ofwords, particularly inScrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanyingphrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
2004, Andrew Fisher, David Webb,The Art of Scrabble:For example, theDAMOSEL stem only appears in the second of the two Internet lists mentioned above. The givenanamonic isPRIZED GALS.
