On autoeponyms

I love fiddling around with words. One set of words that have recently been brought to my attention is the class of self-applicable words, or words that are themselves what they mean. Dan calls these autoeponyms, or cognitive onomatopœia. Examples:

• terse
• abbr.
• sesquipedalian
• noun
• red (just kidding)

These are hard to think of. Anybody got any more?

And here's a good one. Let's coin a new word:

antiautoeponym (n) \AN-tE-o-t&-ep-uh-nim\ A word that does not describe or apply to itself.

Is this word an autoeponym? If it is, then by its own definition, it is not. Similarly, if it is not, then by definition it is. This is yet another implementation of the Liar's Paradox discovered by Epimenides.

That reminds me of a joke: What happens if you strap a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat and toss the cat off the balcony? It lands on Bertrand Russell.