mountweazel
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Mountweazel¹
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Coined by Henry Alford in the The New Yorker from an entry for a fictitious Lillian Virginia Mountweazel in the 1975 edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia.
noun Mountweazels · mountweazel
- A nihilartikel. […]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.
mountweazel²
noun mountweazels
- Alternative letter-case form of Mountweazel And it seems that modern dictionaries still occasionally use a mountweazel to flush out cheats. One famous made-up word, esquivalience, appeared in the 2001 edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary.
Talk about this word "mountweazel." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mountweazel. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. mountweazel. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mountweazel "mountweazel." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mountweazel.Cite this
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title = {mountweazel},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mountweazel},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
