Wiktionary:Word of the day/2020/April 3

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(originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”). To celebrate April Fools’ Day, we are featuring a series of homonyms of more common words – enjoy!

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