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printer's devilries

printer's devilries is the plural of printer's devilry.

Meaning of printer's devilry

Noun

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

  1. (crosswording) 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.
    • Remember: a Printer's Devilry clue need not make real sense in the “deviled” form offered as clue.1973 January 1, New York Magazine, page 71
  2. A typographical error.
    • This was not a printer's devilry, for taffetas, sugar, mats are similarly misstated.1909, The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

Questions about printer's devilries

What is printer's devilries the plural of?
Printer's devilries is the plural of printer's devilry.

Words near printer's devilries in the dictionary

  1. printer buffers
  2. printer's
  3. printer's apostrophe
  4. printer's apostrophes
  5. printer's devil
  6. printer's devilries
  7. printer's devilry
  8. printer's devils
  9. printer's hat
  10. printer's ink
  11. printer's inks

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