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penman

[ pen-muhn ]

noun

plural penmen.
  1. a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
  2. an expert in penmanship.
  3. a writer or author.


penman

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noun

  1. a person skilled in handwriting
  2. a person who writes by hand in a specified way

    a bad penman

  3. an author
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of penman1

First recorded in 1585–95; pen 1 + -man
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As director of speechwriting in Barack Obama's second term, he was the principal penman behind four State of the Unions.

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Drakeo the Ruler was a one-of-a-kind penman, eschewing traditional English for a coded language of references and surrogates that could fill its own dictionary.

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The workmanship was no less fastidious even at the bottom of the board, near the doorsill, where the two penmen, each in his turn, had obviously lain on their stomachs.

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Christian Meier, its media editor, described as being reliant on “a group of reporters with a strong power base that have remodelled the magazine into a penmen’s journal, under which strong research has sufferedâ€.

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She even gave the penman, who set up temporary shop outside headquarters, a dime to make a card for her.

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