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What is a Mountweazel?

I want to thank the folks at ThoughtCo for answering this question. “A Mountweazel is a bogus entry deliberately inserted in a reference work, usually as a safeguard against copyright infringement. The source of the term is the fictitious Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, a bogus entry in the fourth edition of The New Columbia Encyclopedia.” Even more fun is the description of her…