inkhorn
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɪŋkˌhɔː(ɹ)n/
inkhorn (plural inkhorns)
- (archaic) A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.
- circa 1598 William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III, Scene 5,
- Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole; bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we are now to examination these men.
- 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, Boston: Ticknor, Part III, p. 44,
- […] from his pocket the notary drew his papers and inkhorn,
- Wrote with a steady hand the date and the age of the parties,
- circa 1598 William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III, Scene 5,
- (used attributively, pejorative, of vocabulary) Pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
- circa 1591 William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, Part 1,
- And ere that we will suffer such a prince,
- So kind a father of the commonweal,
- To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,
- We and our wives and children all will fight
- And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.
- circa 1591 William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, Part 1,
- Portuguese: tinteiro
- German: gekünstelt, konstruiert
- Italian: pedante, pretenzioso
- Portuguese: presunçoso, pedante
- Russian: педанти́чный
- Spanish: pedante, rebuscado
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