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unprintable

adj

Etymology

From un- + printable.

  1. inherited from *printen✻
  2. formed as printable — “print + -able”
  3. formed as unprintable — “un- + printable”

Definitions

  1. Not printable

    Not printable; obscene, or unable to be displayed textually.

    • Once a neighbor complained that a Gilbreth had called the neighbor's boy a son of an unprintable word.

  2. Something that is not printable.

    • LabVIEW will interpret one- or two-character codes following the backslash character, as shown in Table 2.1. You can also enter unprintables by simply typing them into the string.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unprintable. 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