What does cacography mean?

Definitions for cacography
kəˈkɒg rə ficacog·ra·phy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacographynoun

    poor handwriting

Wiktionary

  1. cacographynoun

    Bad spelling.

  2. cacographynoun

    Bad handwriting.

  3. cacographynoun

    The act of exhibiting these traits

  4. Etymology: From κακός + γράφω. Believed to have been introduced in the late sixteenth century, with the emergence of printing technologies and standard lexicon, the need for orthographic spelling was mandatory as opposed to the prior method of spelling upon personal preference.

Wikipedia

  1. Cacography

    Cacography is bad spelling or bad handwriting. The term in the sense of "poor spelling, accentuation, and punctuation" is a semantic antonym to orthography, and in the sense of "poor handwriting" it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός (kakos "bad") and γραφή (graphe "writing"). Cacography is also deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism.A common usage of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers, as with eye dialect spelling. Others include the use to indicate that something was written by a child, to indirectly voice a cute or funny animal in a meme such as the captioned photo of a British shorthair that was the namesake of I Can Has Cheezburger?, or because the misspelling bears a humorous resemblance to a completely unrelated word.

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  1. cacography

    Cacography is the practice or quality of bad handwriting, incorrect spelling, or poor calligraphy. This term could also be used to describe an intentional choice to write poorly, often for stylistic purposes in literature or art.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cacographynoun

    incorrect or bad writing or spelling

  2. Etymology: [Gr. kako`s bad + -graphy; cf. F. cacographie.]

Wikidata

  1. Cacography

    Cacography is deliberate comic misspelling, a type of humour similar to malapropism. The term in the sense of "poor spelling, accentuation, and punctuation" is a semantic antonym to orthography, and in the sense of "poor handwriting" it is an etymological antonym to the word calligraphy: cacography is from Greek κακός + γραφή. A common usage of cacography was to caricature illiterate speakers.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Cacography

    kak-og′ra-fi, n. bad writing or spelling.—adj. Cacograph′ic [Gr. kakos, bad, and graphia, writing.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cacography in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cacography in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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