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单词 scoteinography
释义

scoteinographyn.

Brit. /ˌskɒtʌɪˈnɒɡrəfi/, U.S. /ˌskɑdaɪˈnɑɡrəfi/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek σκοτεινός , -graphy comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek σκοτεινός dark, obscure ( < σκοτός darkness (see scoto- comb. form2) + -εινός (in ϕαεινός bright: see phanopoeia n.)) + -graphy comb. form.
rare.
Illegible writing.
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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).
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