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(noun) - (1) A learned or pedantic word or expression; an inkhorn term. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901 (2) This phrase, once common, might be revived to signify pedantic expressions which "smell of the lamp." Shakespeare uses the phrase "inkhorn mate" in 1 Henry IV. --Ebenezer Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
April 22, 2018