cacography

名词 n.
/kaˈkɒɡɹəfi/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Bad spelling or punctuation, especially unintuitive spellings considered as a feature of a whole language or dialect. countable,uncountable
    — A phrase exhibits proofs of cacography, when the accents are misplaced, forgotten, or used erroneously.
  2. Deliberate comic misspelling; malapropism. countable,uncountable
    — The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism.
  3. Poor or illegible handwriting. countable,uncountable
    — Many illegible letters is the sign of disorder, and the illegibility of Greeley's cacography has furnished numberless anecdotes.

词形变化

cacographies plural kakography alternative

词源

From caco- + -graphy, perhaps after Middle French cacographie.
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