Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Contemporary (2000–) ·2015
Momager
mom manager
- Meaning
- A mother managing her child's career (especially in entertainment).
- Source words
- mom + manager
- Coined by
- Kris Jenner (popularised)
- Year
- 2015
Background
Jenner trademarked *Momager* in 2015 but had used the word publicly for years before. The Kardashian-Jenner family's commercial empire made the word the archetype for a specific celebrity-parenting model.
Contemporary (2000–)
Faster coinage, faster canonisation. Brexit and podcast both reached the OED within a decade of first use — historically rapid. Social media has made visibility, not invention, the rate-limiting step.
Two words, one coinage.
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