Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: orthography
noun
Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Poor or illegible handwriting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: calligraphy
noun
poor handwriting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: scribble, scratch, scrawl
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: handwriting, hand, script
Narrower terms: chicken scratch, squiggle
History
From caco- + -graphy, perhaps after Middle French cacographie.
Across languages
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
