mountweazel
mountweazel is the alternative letter-case form of Mountweazel.
Noun capitalized: Mountweazel
Mountweazel (plural Mountweazels)
- A nihilartikel.
- […]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.2005 August 21, Henry Alford, “Not a Word”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2017
- Tweedy-Holmes is now a professional photographer, and portions of her website bio read a bit like a mountweazel: “Her images of the male nude were exhibited extensively to critical acclaim in the 1970s and are among the first art photographs of this subject by an American woman.”
Before we got to...2018 December 31, Nick Norlen, “‘Glitch of the Pentagon’: There’s a reason you might not have heard of this monster”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2018
Forms of mountweazel
| plural | mountweazels |
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| plural | Mountweazels |
| alternative form | mountweazel |
Origin of mountweazel
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.
Questions about mountweazel
- What does mountweazel mean?
- Mountweazel means a nihilartikel.
- What is mountweazel the alternative letter-case form of?
- Mountweazel is the alternative letter-case form of Mountweazel.
- What part of speech is mountweazel?
- Mountweazel is a noun.
- What is the plural of mountweazel?
- The plural of mountweazel is mountweazels.
Words near mountweazel in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mountweazel (page history and authors); Mountweazel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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