| \kuh-KOG-ruh-fee\ | noun
1. poor penmanship; bad handwriting.
2. incorrect spelling. | | Quotes | The writing was a model of cacography and I think that unless you learn patience and penmanship you had best forget your manners and use the machine, as I am doing now.
-- Mavis Gallant, A Fairly Good Time, 1970 | | Origin | | Cacography joins caco-, from the Greek term kakόs meaning "bad," with -graphy, a combining form used to refer to a process or form of writing, drawing, recording or representing. It entered English in the mid-1500s. | |
