FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

Hungarian “bejgzilla”. The Hungarian neologism bejgzilla is a playful and creative compound word that combines bejgli (a traditional Hungarian Christmas pastry, typically filled with poppy seeds or walnuts) and Godzilla (the famous fictional giant monster). The word “bejgzilla” implies a bejgli that turned into a “monster” due to some mishap—whether it’s an overbaked, misshapen, or otherwise unsuccessful cake. So the term humorously conveys the idea of a culinary disaster. It appeared in the Hungarian media language around 2022.

Veronika Lipp is the director of the Institute for Lexicology at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics since 2021. She earned her PhD in 2011 and has worked as a lexicographer at the Comprehensive Dictionary of Hungarian for 15 years. Actively engaged in international lexicographic projects, she has contributed to initiatives such as COST ENeL, HORIZON2020 ELEXIS, and COST UniDive and COST ENEOLI as MC member. Her primary research interests include monolingual lexicography and corpus building. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Dictionary Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and since 2024, a member of its Permanent Committee of the Hungarian Linguistics Department. Additionally, she has served as a Hungarian representative for EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language) and as an editorial board member of Studia lexicographica, a journal based in Zagreb, since 2023. She is the Executive Deputy Director General at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics from December 2024.