Hapaxes

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N. A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded body of a given language. Urban Dictionary

Noun (pl. hapax legomena or hapaxes) A word that appears only once in a text corpus or body of writing—be this a particular author's oeuvre, a work of substantial length, or a language's entire collection of writing, including the Twittersphere. From Ancient Greek hápax legómenon ("thing once said"). Urban Dictionary

The fuck should i know? Urban Dictionary

A Hapax legomenon is a word or expression that only occurs one time. This can be abbreviated as Hapax. Urban Dictionary

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Since the forms are abbreviated here and since these epithets appear to be hapaxes, one can only surmise the full forms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The oldest Greek has many hapaxes, names for forgotten farming instruments and sexual instruments that early scholars thought were more suitably translated as sea creatures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This analysis is more optimal since if we think of this as a game of cards, two attested words and a dis legomenon i.e. a word attested only twice beats two hapaxes any day. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[schwonk]: an uneducated phrase or comment. UD [goons] might want to put that one in [the archive]..... ©uh-uh-uh ❋ Notorious D.O.U.C.H.E. (2003)

The old [Ottoman] Governments regarded this clan of manticratic peers with a mixture of reverence and distrust. —T. E. Lawrence, [1926] Despite the constant negative press covfefe —Donald Trump producing a [hapax legomenon] of his own, 2017 ❋ DrSJohnson (2020)

❋ Duke (2003)

There is [this one] [word in] [a book] that I found that is only mentioned once. This is an Hapax legomenon. ❋ Noah Armon (2022)

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