ghostword

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ghost +‎ word.

Noun[edit]

ghostword (plural ghostwords)

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