Deceptive Dictionary

Welcome to the era of misinformation! We have fake news and alternative facts, so why not also a deceptive dictionary?

With that in mind, we've created the Menagerie of Made-up Morphemes, where our imagination runs wild concocting fictitious words and their definitions based on the letters provided by The New York Times daily Spelling Bee game.

Today's letters are A, C, M, O, R, T, and center I (all words must include I).

"Not in word list"? Well, okay, aircot is not currently in the dictionary… but who knows, it might be in the future! So let's take a gander at what that entry might look like.

Example sentence(s)

Aircots have become quite popular across the globe in youth hostels, where owners and managers can stack five and even six vertically, maximizing occuppancy… and profits. — "These Air Mattresses are Literally Mattresses in the Air!", The New York Pustule, August 21, 2045

Word origin

Compound word created by combining the nouns air (invisible gaseous substance around us) and cot (a small usually collapsible bed often of fabric stretched on a frame). Coined as a variation of wheelchair.

Notes

The photo in the dictionary was taken from an online ad for an aircot, circa 2048. The ad purported to demonstrate the stability of the aircot by showing a person jumping on it as if it were a regular mattress.

See also airchair.

Interested in real words, too? Then check out Silly Little Dictionary!, our sister publication.