Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lawlessly passionate; meretricious.
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Lists
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Ghost words
Words that were mistakenly included in dictionaries.
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 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...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pornial.
reesetee I'm wondering what the original type looked like. Sometimes it's easier to misread than it seems. Dec 2, 2009
uselessness I've seen some embarrassing misreads in my time, but you'd have to be blind as a bat to get this from that. Dec 2, 2009
Prolagus And listless. Dec 2, 2009
mollusque Excellent! Do you know of other such that I could add to Dictionary words & escapees?
On Wordie, a ghost word was one no longer on any lists. See Former ghosts and Ghosted. Dec 2, 2009
grantbarrett A ghost word, caused by a mis-reading of "primal" by the editors of the Century Dictionary. See this Language Hat discussion. Dec 2, 2009