Inkhorn Definition

ĭngkhôrn
noun
A small container made of horn or other material, formerly used to hold ink.
Webster's New World

(used attributively, pejorative, of vocabulary) Pedantic, obscurely scholarly.

Wiktionary
adjective
Pedantic; bookish.
An inkhorn term.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Inkhorn

Noun

Singular:
inkhorn
Plural:
inkhorns

Origin of Inkhorn

  • From Middle English inkhorn (“small portable vessel, originally made of horn, used to hold ink”), equivalent to ink +‎ horn.

    From Wiktionary

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Words Starting With

IININK

Words Ending With

NRNORN

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inkhorn

Words Starting With I and Ending With N

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