"printer's devilry" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Pun on printer's devil and devilry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "printer's devilries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "printers' devilries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "2": "printer's devilries",
        "3": "printers' devilries"
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      "expansion": "printer's devilry (countable and uncountable, plural printer's devilries or printers' devilries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "96 4",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-printer's_devilry-en-noun-z0oDzMjL",
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "82 18",
          "word": "Titivillus"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "82 18",
          "word": "Printer's Devilry"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record:",
          "text": "This was not a printer's devilry, for taffetas, sugar, mats are similarly misstated.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 445:",
          "text": "The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Pratibha India:",
          "text": "A word of caution! The Bengali as well as the translated texts are not free from Printer's devilry.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A typographical error."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "printer's devilry"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Pun on printer's devil and devilry.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "printer's devilries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "printers' devilries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "printer's devilries",
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      "expansion": "printer's devilry (countable and uncountable, plural printer's devilries or printers' devilries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Titivillus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "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."
      ],
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      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
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    },
    {
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record:",
          "text": "This was not a printer's devilry, for taffetas, sugar, mats are similarly misstated.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 445:",
          "text": "The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Pratibha India:",
          "text": "A word of caution! The Bengali as well as the translated texts are not free from Printer's devilry.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A typographical error."
      ],
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      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Printer's Devilry"
    }
  ],
  "word": "printer's devilry"
}