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单词 uglyography
释义

uglyographyn.

Etymology: < ugly adj. + -ography comb. form. Used only by Southey.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: uglyˈography.
Bad handwriting; uncouth spelling.
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1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 285 I do beseech you mend your uglyography.
1805 R. Southey Madoc Notes 527 Quetzalcohuatl, for such is the uglyography of his name.

Derivatives

uglyˈographize v. (transitive) to spell uncouthly.
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a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VII. 265 How it would have been..uglyographized by Elphinstone..I know not.
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