mountweazel

A nihilartikel.

[…]the remaining three hundred and sixty words were then vetted with a battery of references. Six potential Mountweazels emerged.

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 the big questions, I asked if she knew what fake encyclopedia entries are sometimes called now, and she said she didn’t. “They’re called mountweazels,” I said.

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.