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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression;
- Example: "he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sumpsimus n 1: a correct expression that takes the place of a popular but incorrect expression; "he preferred his erroneous but pleasing mumpsimus to the correct sumpsimus"