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Word: comicus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...elaborate Greek insult to editorial pencil wielders. Rhypokondylos, used in a fragment of Plato Comicus (sth century B.C.) and meaning "with dirty knuckles," can also, by a slight linguistic stretch, be taken to mean "with dirty pencils," since a later Greek word for pencil is kondylion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad but Memorable | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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