ghost word

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.

词形变化

ghost words plural ghostword alternative

词源

Coined by Walter William Skeat in 1886; from ghost + word.
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