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speedwriting

noun

Etymology

speed + writing, originally a trade name.

  1. derived from wrītan — “to scratch, carve, write”
  2. inherited from wrītende
  3. inherited from writinge
  4. compounded as speedwriting — “speed + writing”

Definitions

  1. Any of various shorthands designed to be written or typed.

    • I remember she carried a notebook and would practise her speedwriting. The faster she could write, asking different questions, the better because she had to put it down fast.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for speedwriting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA