Definitions
Etymologies
- From a series of mistranscriptions and misprints, from "a bycoket" to "a bicoket" to "abocoket" to "abocoke" to, at last, "abacot". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In spite of this exposure of the impostor, the word was allowed to stand, with a woodcut of an abacot, in an important dictionary published subsequently, although Dr. Murray's remarks were quoted.”
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
“` ` abacot, '' ` ` knise, '' ` ` morse, '' and ` ` polien. '”
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List of Heraldry Terms
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reesetee This word, apparently, was originally bycoket. More here.
Mar 17, 2009