Word list · 7 words
Meaning not found
These are words people search for whose meaning cannot be found: not in dictionaries, not in usage records, sometimes not anywhere before the search itself. For a site called 404 they are home ground.
Each entry says where the word seems to come from, what people guess it means, and what the evidence does and does not show. When the honest answer is that nobody knows, the page says so instead of inventing one.
Kept on this device only, for the daily recall in My words.
The words
67
67, said "six seven" and never "sixty-seven", is Gen Alpha slang with no fixed meaning.
Text & Internet Slang
Ghost word
A ghost word is a word that was never really used: it exists only because of an error, such as a misprint, a misreading or a copying mistake, and then gets recorded in a dictionary or reference…
Literary & Rhetorical
Mountweazel
A mountweazel is a fake entry deliberately planted in a reference work, such as a dictionary, encyclopedia or map, to catch anyone who copies it.
Literary & Rhetorical