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metagram|ˈmɛtəgræm| [f. Gr. µετα- meta- + γράµµα letter, after anagram.] A kind of puzzle turning on the alteration of a word by removing some of its letters and substituting others.
1867London Society XII. 307 We therefore welcome a new sort of 'gram... Its name, metagram, is derived from two Greek words, signifying a ‘change of letters’. It is on this change that the whole thing turns. 1882Grosart in Spenser's Wks. III. p. lxxxii, An anagram or metagram. |