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ghostword en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ghost word.
    alt of ghost word
    • It is to Bengt Löfstedt that we owe valuable information concerning the 'ghostword' geo. 2005, Michael Lapidge, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Andy Orchard, Latin Learning and English Lore:
    • Who is really responsible for this ghostword. I have not been able to make it out yet. 1922, Otto B. Schlutter, “Is There Any Evidence for an Alleged OE. Wyhtel 'Quail'?”, in Neophilologus:
    • Incidentally, the ghostword *falbanda does exist in Italian only on the dictionary page[.] 2020, Luca Lorenzetti, “Italian: Normative Dictionaries”, in Manual of Standardization in the Romance Languages:

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ghostwords Number=Plur lexicographic