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spoil-papers

spoil-papers is the plural of spoil-paper.

Meaning of spoil-paper

Noun

spoil-paper (plural spoil-papers)

  1. (obsolete) An unskilled writer.
    • Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the...1874 [1833], “Prologue [The Second Ten]”, in Droll Stories, translation of Les Cent Contes drolatiques by Honoré de Balzac, page 173
    Synonyms:
    blotter, feather-driver, hack, paper-blurrer, penster, squitter-pulp

Questions about spoil-papers

What is spoil-papers the plural of?
Spoil-papers is the plural of spoil-paper.

Words near spoil-papers in the dictionary

  1. spoil the market
  2. spoil the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar
  3. spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
  4. spoil'd
  5. spoil-paper
  6. spoil-papers
  7. spoil-sport
  8. spoil-sports
  9. spoilability
  10. spoilable
  11. spoilage

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