printer's devilry
English
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Etymology
Pun on printer's devil and devilry.
Noun
printer's devilry (uncountable)
- A type of crossword puzzle where solvers have to identify the string of letters, spelling out a word, that has been removed from a sentence.
- A typographical error.
- 1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record
- This was not a printer's devilry, for taffetas, sugar, mats are similarly misstated.
- 2002, Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan →ISBN, page 445
- The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry.
- 2002, Pratibha India
- A word of caution! The Bengali as well as the translated texts are not free from Printer's devilry.
- 1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record
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