printer's devilry

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Etymology[edit]

Pun on printer's devil and devilry.

Noun[edit]

printer's devilry (countable and uncountable, plural printer's devilries or printers' devilries)

  1. A type of crossword puzzle where solvers have to identify the string of letters, spelling out a word, that has been removed from a sentence.
  2. A typographical error.
    • 1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record:
      This was not a printer's devilry, for taffetas, sugar, mats are similarly misstated.
    • 2002, Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 445:
      The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry.
    • 2002, Pratibha India:
      A word of caution! The Bengali as well as the translated texts are not free from Printer's devilry.

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