pencil-and-paperadj.
/ˌpɛnsl(ə)n(d)ˈpeɪpə/, U.S. /ˌpɛnsəl(ə)n(d)ˈpeɪpər/ Requiring or involving (only) pencil and paper.
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1923 Bee (Danville, Virginia) 26 May 10/2 Although unable either to speak or hear, Hannan..found life much simpler there, he said in a pencil-and-paper conversation.
1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement viii. 385 You had to pretend you were having a marvellous time because you were wearing hats from crackers and playing pencil and paper games (‘Let me see, a river beginning with “V”?’).
1957 L. Fox Numerical Solution Two-point Boundary Probl. p. v The worthwhile methods known to me which are suitable for pencil-and-paper and desk-machine computation.
1973 Nature 27 Apr. 594/2 Table 4.1 only lists some values of a simple function..which is perfectly amenable to pencil-and-paper arithmetic.
1994 Our Schools, our Selves Nov. 46 He hates pencil and paper tasks, and has devised ingenious avoidance strategies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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