ghost word
A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless, that has been published in a…A fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless (not used in practice), that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work or otherwise listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation, misreading, or typographical error.
Meaning
1 sensesA fictitious or erroneous word, originally meaningless (not used in practice), that has been published in a dictionary or similarly authoritative reference work or otherwise listed as genuine, generally as the result of misinterpretation, misreading, or typographical error.
Ghostword, Geisterwort
несуществу́ющее сло́воnesuščestvújuščeje slóvo, слово-призракslovo-prizrak
- a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error
Translations
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Origin
Coined by Walter William Skeat in 1886; from ghost + word.Coined by Walter William Skeat in 1886; from ghost + word.
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