Word.ws English Dictionary

hackney writers

hackney writers is the plural of hackney writer.

Meaning of hackney writer

Noun

hackney writer (plural hackney writers)

  1. (obsolete) A writer for hire.
    • […] he learned, that Justice Gobble, whose father was a tailor, had for some time served as a journeyman hosier in London, where he had picked up some law terms, by conversing with hackney writers and attorneys’ clerks of the lowest order; […]1760, Tobias Smollet, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
    Synonyms:
    penny-a-liner

Questions about hackney writers

What is hackney writers the plural of?
Hackney writers is the plural of hackney writer.

Words near hackney writers in the dictionary

  1. hackney cabs
  2. hackney carriage
  3. hackney carriages
  4. Hackney Downs
  5. hackney writer
  6. hackney writers
  7. hackneyed
  8. hackneyedness
  9. hackneyer
  10. hackneyers
  11. hackneying

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hackney writers (page history and authors); hackney writer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hackney writers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hackney_writers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.