| 单词 | ghost name |
| 释义 | > as lemmasghost name ghost name n. a name that has come into existence by error rather than established usage, e.g. as a result of the incorrect transcription of a manuscript (cf. ghost word n.). [Probably after ghost word n.] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > ghost word ghost word1887 ghost name1891 ghost form1894 1891 Knowledge Dec. 223/2 Professor Skeat has said nothing about what may be called Ghost-names, which are, perhaps, more numerous than Ghost-words, inasmuch as in a manuscript, however badly written, the context gives some clue to an undecipherable word, whereas in the case of a name there is no such aid. 1896 Daily News 3 Jan. 5/2 Grampians is a ghost-name, derived from a misreading of Tacitus's Mons Graupius. 2015 Bull. Amer. Soc. Papyrologists 52 269 The name..is not attested elsewhere and is in fact a ghost name. < as lemmas |
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