Word: comicus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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