adverticle

noun

/adˈvɜː.tɪ.kəl/UK/ædˈvɝ.tɪ.kəl/US

Etymology

Blend of advertisement + article.

derived from *h₂értus✻
derived from artus
derived from articulus — “a joint, limb, member, part, division, the article in grammar, a point of time”
derived from article
inherited from article
compounded as adverticle — “advertisement + article”

An advertisement masquerading as an actual news or feature article in a newspaper or…
An advertisement masquerading as an actual news or feature article in a newspaper or magazine.

No curated loop yet for adverticle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA