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Definitions
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Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“One misunderstanding and two removed spaces later, and "dord" was a new synonym for "density." story of dord is true, and it isn't the only fictitious entry to be found in reference materials.”
“I can't believe the dord of the reading I have to do.”
“The libertarian schema does’nt maximise positive freedom, but neither dord smy slternatice i’m familiar with- and I don’t get the feeling that anyone has seriously set down and tries to build a principled property scheme on posotive liberty and the means of self-actualisation rather than formulaic negative liberty.”
“Webster's Dictionary" for five years, we smelled a rat. dord "was introduced to dictionary compilers accidentally, with a consultant's note reading" D or d, cont/density "-- meaning that" density "should be added to the list of words that" D "could represent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dord’.
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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Hmm
Noteworthy, but why?
offal, Guadalupe, enigma, tickle, armada, cognito, spread, caprae, ovolo, homoiconicity, eunoia, Alli and 6 more...
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May 2010 (Wedding Month!!)
Just the words I meet this month, starting with cecum.
cecum, compersion, antilogy, fantods, dord, flam, ipsedixitism, quartine, glycation, neoteny, desiccation, hypovolemia and 17 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1018 more...
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Ghost Words
Words that started out as mistakes, misprints, clerical errors, and so on.
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Ghost words
Words that were mistakenly included in dictionaries.
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Delta
D
devolve, defenestrate, defenestration, didactic, dragoman, distaff, donga, dagmar, dickensian, diacritic, démarche, dreg and 26 more...
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Notably Unique
Words that are in the record books, or otherwise attract comment.
pneumonoultramicr..., set, misconjugatedly, uncopyrightables, tesseradecades, hypolimnion., teetertotter, aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, aegilops, antiskepticism, bababadalgharaght... and 72 more...
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senrad's Words
paradoxical, glacier, extremity, forlorn, extrapolate, existential, mirth, spork, subterfuge, subtle, epiphany, astronomical and 44 more...
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Learned via Wordie
cruft, puissance, ischemia, spondulicks, dikdik, sibilant, gallimaufry, djembe, interstice, slatch, cantilever, nadir and 22 more...
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Short and Sweet
Five-letter maximun.
dell, knell, glen, dour, cant, chary, segue, quash, onus, cozen, quaff, aver and 59 more...
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Dictionary words & escapees
Words that were created in dictionaries, glossaries, or lexicons, including
1) Words for which no evidence for their occurrence in print outside of dictionaries and glossaries has yet ...pierelle, esquivalience, youngmannishness, dord, pneumonoultramicr..., kelemenopy, zzxjoanw, cryptoscopophilia, cubomancies, lactigerous, eunoia, cheerlessnesses and 19 more...
rabbitwho "Dictionary-makers do make mistakes from time to time though, and one of the more famous errors was the appearance of the ghost word dord in the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary in 1934. Dord was listed on page 771, between the entries for Dorcopsis (a type of small kangaroo) and doré (golden in color), as a noun meaning density in the fields of Physics and Chemistry: "
http://www.snopes.com/language/mistakes/dord.asp
Example of use:
If it floats in this, you'll know its dord.
- I'm sorry, did you mean "it's Ford"? Sep 2, 2010
wundrkind ah woot! i just read about that today. the editor said it was a shame: "why shouldn't dord mean density?" Dec 7, 2007
john The best typo in history. I have the dictionary in which it appeared, the Webster's 2nd Edition Unabridged, 1939 printing. Great dictionary. Dec 15, 2006