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单词 pen and ink
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pen and inkn.adj.

Brit. /ˌpɛn(ə)n(d)ˈɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈpɛnənˈɪŋk/
Forms: see pen n.3 and and conj.1 and ink n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pen n.3, and conj.1, ink n.1
Etymology: < pen n.3 + and conj.1 + ink n.1 In sense A. 2 rhyming slang for stink n.
A. n.
1.
a. The instruments used for writing or drawing; these as an artistic or literary medium. Hence in extended use and figurative: the art of using pen and ink; literary work, authorship (now somewhat rare).
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > [noun]
pen and inkc1500
pen and inkhorn1583
stationery1727
airmail stationery1933
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 3 John i. 13 Y wolde not wrijte to thee bi ynke and penne [L. calamum].]
c1500 ( G. Ashby Prisoner's Refl. 68 in Poems (1899) 3 (MED) Hauyng pen and Inke euyr at my syde, Redy to acomplysshe theyre commandment..in theyr seruyce I spendyd all my youth.
1517 R. Torkington Oldest Diarie Englysshe Trav. (1884) 51 He askyd pene and ynke, and wrotte hys sonne.
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne v. i, in Wks. I. 586 Gentlemen, haue any of you a pen-and-inke. I would faine write out a riddle in Italian. View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Author's Apol. sig. A3 I did not think To shew to all the World my Pen and Ink In such a mode. View more context for this quotation
1704 W. M. Female Wits Pref. sig. A2 Two Gentlewomen that have made no small struggle..to get into Print; and who are now in such a State of Wedlock to Pen and Ink, that it will be very difficult for 'em to get out of it.
1762 T. Gray Let. 19 July in Corr. (1971) II. 781 There is but one pen and ink in the house.
1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 402 Oh, Amos Cottle! for a moment think What meagre profits spring from pen and ink!
1869 Daily News 14 Dec. Here..we meet with a man of pen-and-ink.
1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Brooks, John A copy which he made in pen and ink from a plate of Richard III by Hogarth, who is said to have mistaken it for his own engraving.
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xi. 140 He rang for pen and ink as regally as though he had never sat at the wrong end of a buzzer.
1990 Brit. Museum Mag. Sept. 28/1 Study for a picture now at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Pen and ink with washes of brown and grey.
b. A drawing or sketch made using pen and ink.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific medium
coal work1651
crayon1662
pastel1791
pencilling1803
pen sketch1847
pen-picture1853
sanguine1854
pen and ink1860
black lead study1862
sepia1863
stylograph1866
charcoal1884
fusain1884
line drawing1891
celluloid1920
1860 D. G. Rossetti Let. 28 Sept. (1965) I. 375 Now one of his commissions is for a £50 pen-and-ink.
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/1 Three pen-and-inks by Sir John Millais.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 20 Oct. 3/2 Some good drawings..especially a pen-and-ink, ‘Les Halles, Malines’.
1997 E. Meloy Map for Hummingbirds in J. Daynard Place Within (1997) 22 I made a living in technical illustration, churning out laboriously stippled pen-and-inks of bones and feathers.
2. British slang. A stink.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fetid smells
stenchc893
reekeOE
weffea1300
stink1382
fise14..
smeek?c1425
fist1440
fetorc1450
stew1487
moisture1542
putor1565
pouant1602
funk1606
graveolence1623
hogo1654
whiff1668
fogo1794
stythe1823
malodour1825
pen and ink1859
body scent1875
pong1900
niffa1903
hum1906
taint1927
honk1953
bowf1985
stank1996
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 145 Pen and ink, a stink.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 86/2 Pen and ink,..a stink.
2003 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 18 Sept. 28 I love old cockney slang, like ‘what's that pen and ink?’ (stink).
B. adj. (attributive) . Frequently with hyphens.
1. Of a person: using pen and ink; literary; involved in publishing, writing, or drawing.
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society > communication > writing > [adjective] > writing as occupation
pen and ink1672
clerking1679
quill-driving1707
scrivening1778
1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood iii. i. 46 Thou rascally, insolent, pen and ink-man.
1745 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 80 The Duke of Bedford..says he is tired of being a pen and ink man.
1819 Edinb. Rev. 32 112 One of these mercantile pen and ink emperors.
1848 H. Grote Let. 28 Jan. in Lewin Lett. (1909) II. v. 53 Truly you are becoming ‘a pen and ink nuisance’, as poor Dick used to call you.
1967 A. L. Lloyd Folk Song in Eng. 14 When [Cecil] Sharp was..in search of song..a wide gulf separated the pen-and-ink man from the man with bowyangs of binder twine.
1993 Daily Variety (Nexis) 27 Dec. (News section) 1 Pixar's own animators—including traditional pen-and-ink men,..—were adapting to computers at Pixar Animation.
2. Done, made, or executed with pen and ink (used esp. of a drawing or sketch). Also: written; carried on in writing.
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society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective]
writtenOE
pricked1463
penned1567
handwritten1583
paper1616
literal1621
inditeda1640
in manuscript1646
scribed1662
scriptory1704
scriptured1763
pen and ink1810
scriptitious1815
paper-and-pencil1927
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [adjective] > drawn > in specific medium
pencilled1594
pen and ink1810
chalked1823
pen-and-pencila1845
pen-and-wash1893
line-drawn1903
1810 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 100 263 An elegant pen and ink drawing which was made by Captain Horsburg.
1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 15 Nov. in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 281 Fanny shall try to make a sketch of them—so I will spare ineffectual pen and ink description.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. i. 37 A crooked pen-and-ink outline of a great turtle.
1845 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. V. 37 The last blow struck in the pen and ink war.
1934 Burlington Mag. May 213/2 The artistic Rembrandtesque pen-and-ink sketches then in vogue.
1997 M. Acton Learning to look at Paintings (2000) vii. 164 The pen and ink lines are not used to outline but to convey the feeling of form.

Derivatives

pen-and-inkage n. Obsolete the use of pen and ink.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > communication > writing > [noun]
writingeOE
penning1548
composition1553
characterizing1591
penship1622
scription1627
exaration1631
inkshed1672
scrivening1680
quill-driving1756
pen-and-inkage1894
1894 Temple Bar Mar. 339 The sunk rock of pen-and-inkage so often the outcome of a plethora of leisure.
pen-and-inkmanship n. Obsolete the occupation of writing.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > communication > writing > [noun] > writing as occupation
writingc1405
scriveneryc1454
clerkship1550
calligraphy1590
pencraft1600
scribeship1606
clerking1679
pen-and-inkmanship1804
clerkhood1873
clerkage1883
clerkery1883
clerkdom-
1804 R. Southey Let. 20 Jan. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) II. 250 If I regarded pen-and-inkmanship solely as a trade, I might soon give in an income of double the present amount.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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