单词 | scoteinography |
释义 | scoteinographyn. rare. Illegible writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > bad handwriting > untidy or illegible scribbling1536 scribble-scrabble1602 scrawling1612 scrawl1710 scrawls1728 hieroglyphic1742 scoteinography1779 scratch1785 pot-hookery1795 hen scrat1825 cryptogram1827 scribble1828 griffonage1832 hen-scratching1851 chicken scratches1863 hieroglyph1875 1779 T. Twining Let. 17 Sept. in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 267 I thought myself a tolerable adept in this art of scoteinography, but I give you the wall. 1995 K. McLaughlin Writing in Parts Concl. 129 For the historical writing of dialectic, the ‘historiography of the concept’, to be read as such, it must become, not scoteinography (illegible writing), but scotography, in the sense of a writing that goes dark and becomes invisible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1779 |
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