inkhorn
Meanings
Plural: inkhorns
Noun
- A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.
- Pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ynkhorn, inkehorn (“small portable vessel, originally made of horn, used to hold ink”), equivalent to ink + horn. Displaced Old English blæchorn, which had the same literal meaning but with the native term for "ink."
Scrabble Score: 14
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Words With Friends Score: 15
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