Sneaks Slip 'N Slang - Cacographer


Origin: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

Definition: Not a made up word, but a real word that means a bad speller or writer. We need this word.

Example: Check out the Bulwer-Lytton website. They give awards to cacographers.
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

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