Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. philosophy An object with certain properties causing it to trigger a "blicket detector" (a device that lights up and plays music), introduced in certain experiments relating to causality and perception.
Etymologies
- Introduced by David Sobel and Alison Gopnik of the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley. (Wiktionary)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blicket’.
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Nonce
A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. Quark, for example, was formerly a nonce word in English, appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wa...
kwyjibo, fnord, wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem and 22 more...
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WF - nonce words and hapax legomena
Nonce words are one-time word formations, recorded or non-recorded (which may occur several times within a literary work or utterance). A hapax legomenon is a recorded one-time word formation withi...
wug, blicket, dax, toma, pimwit, zav, speff, tulver, gazzer, fem, fendle, tupa and 32 more...
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Mountweazels
Fictional words: hoaxes, copyright traps, and bluffs. I should probably admit that much of this list is lifted from Wikipedia's "Fictitious Entry" article.
mountweazel, kelemenopy, esquivalience, apopudobalia, zzxjoanw, steinlaus, leuchtschnabelbeu..., searbhfhoghantaidhe, bigon, san serriffe, swedish lemon angels, rhinogradentia and 11 more...
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drosselmeier See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_word May 7, 2011