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ghost word::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | descriptor, form, signifier, word form |
Examples of ghost word
ghost word
Many a ghost-word due to a seventeenth century misprint still gibbers at us from the mote ambitious dictionaries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
From the theatlantic.com
Word has it a friendly female ghost decked in a wedding dress roams the halls at night.
From the time.com
The plain, popular course is to trust the peasant's word about the ghost exactly as far as you trust the peasant's word about the landlord.
From the scienceblogs.com
I'll have to listen to the ghost and pearl parts several times to transcribe every word.
From the entertainment.time.com
The ghost vanishes then, without a word.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.
From the guardian.co.uk
No ghost writer on my cookbook, I wrote every word myself.
From the publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com
He couldn't get advance word to friends, so his appearance was as unexpected as a ghost.
From the jsonline.com
This sounds a reasonable explanation, and syllabus is now a word we should be sorry to lose, but it is really a ghost and has no more to do with the aforesaid Greek word than with syllabub.
From the theatlantic.com
