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errand-ghost

noun

Etymology

From errand + ghost, a modern calque of Old English ǣrendgāst (“spiritual messenger, angel”).

  1. inherited from *ǵʰéysdos✻
  2. inherited from *gaistaz✻
  3. inherited from *gaist✻
  4. inherited from gāst
  5. inherited from gost
  6. compounded as errand-ghost — “errand + ghost”

Definitions

  1. A spirit or spiritual messenger

    A spirit or spiritual messenger; an angel.

    • If that was really insulting, please don't be offended. I certainly don't think of you as my errand-ghost. Actually, I think of you as my friend.
    • If Jesus were not God, He would have told lede to not worship Him, just as the errand-ghost in Bring to Lightings did.

  2. Any spirit or ghostly messenger.

    • In regard of the previous question – do you also choose empty localizations deliberately? Is this to strengthen the fright for loneliness and silence, the same fright that the errand ghost of those haunted places feels?
    • Death is not unknown to him, but she has perished / And her errand ghost wanders through the night.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for errand-ghost. 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