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pen and ink, pen-and-ink, phr.
A. as n.
1. lit. The instruments of writing: see pen n.2 4 and ink n. (Hyphened when this helps the sense.)
1463G. Ashby Poems i. 68 Hauyng pen and Inke euyr at my syde. 1517R. Torkington Pilgr. (1884) 51 He askyd pene and ynke, and wrotte hys sonne. 1762Gray Let. to J. Brown 19 July, There is but one pen and ink in the house. 1809Byron Bards & Rev. 402 Oh, Amos Cottle! for a moment think What meagre profits spring from pen and ink! 1869Daily News 14 Dec., Here..we meet with a man of pen-and-ink.
2. Short for pen-and-ink drawing: see B.
1860D. G. Rossetti Let. 28 Sept. (1965) I. 375 Now one of his commissions is for a {pstlg}50 pen-and-ink. 1890Pall Mall G. 19 Mar. 3/1 Three pen-and-inks by Sir John Millais. 1900Westm. Gaz. 20 Oct. 3/2 Some good drawings..especially a pen-and-ink, ‘Les Halles, Malines’. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 16/2 Mrs. Fisher had once done us a pen and ink of the Poplar Branch landing.
3. A stink. Rhyming slang.
1859Hotten Dict. Slang 145 Pen and ink, a stink. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 86/2 Pen and ink,..a stink. 1972G. F. Newman You Nice Bastard 347 Pen (and ink), stink.
B. as adj. (properly hyphened).
1. Using pen and ink; occupied in writing; clerkly.
1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer v. i, What, and the Pen and Ink Gentlemen taken too! 1745H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 80 The Duke of Bedford..says he is tired of being a pen and ink man. 1819Edin. Rev. XXXII. 112 One of these mercantile pen and ink emperors. 1967A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in England 14 When [Cecil] Sharp was..in search of song..a wide gulf separated the pen-and-ink man from the man with bowyangs of binder twine. 1972[see lensman s.v. lens n. 4].
2. Done, made, or executed with pen and ink: usually of a drawing or sketch; also, done or described in writing. (Hyphened.)
1842Dickens Amer. Notes ix. (1850) 99/1 A crooked pen-and-ink outline of a great turtle. 1861Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 193 The last blow struck in the pen-and-ink war. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men I. ii. 137 His pen-and-ink drawing from memory of that object is surprisingly accurate. 1897Academy 3 Apr. 381/2 It [Cowper's correspondence] is the best pen-and-ink conversation that we have.
C. as v. intr.
1. (nonce-use.) To use a pen and ink, to write. (Hyphened.)
1801Southey Let. to G. C. Bedford 19 Aug. in Life (1850) II. 159, I am..pen-and-inking for supplies, not from pure inclination.
2. To stink. Rhyming slang. Also ellipt., as pen.
1892Sporting Times 29 Oct. 1/2 The air began With his language to pen and ink. 1972G. F. Newman You Nice Bastard iv. 137 ‘I don't mind, provided he takes a bath.’ ‘Yeah, he does pen a bit.’
Hence (nonce-wds.) pen-and-inkage, pen-and-inkmanship, the use of pen and ink, the occupation of writing.
1804Southey Let. to J. Rickman 20 Jan. in Life (1850) II. 250 If I regarded pen-and-inkmanship solely as a trade, I might soon give in an income of double the amount. 1894Temple Bar Mag. Mar. 339 The sunk rock of pen-and-inkage so often the outcome of a plethora of leisure.
So † pen and inkhorn, as writing instruments, carried by clerks, etc.; usually attrib. or as adj. (with hyphens): Using or carrying a pen and inkhorn, engaged in writing, clerkly; learned, pedantic (cf. inkhorn 2 b).
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 117 Hang him [the Clerk of Chatham] with his Pen and Inke-horne about his necke. 1599Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον (1682) 86 Booke language and penne and inke-horne tearmes. 1601Chettle & Munday Downf. Earl Huntington i. iii. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 118 A paltry pen-and-inkhorn clerk. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. ii. 38 Let no man thinke, Ile racke my memory For pen-and-inkehorne termes, to finifie My blunt invention. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. i. §18 They..projected the general destruction of all that wore a pen-and-ink-horn about them. |