Dysgraphia (noun)
dis-graf-ee-a
Inability to write coherently, as a symptom of brain disease or damage.
1930s: from dys- ‘difficult’ + Greek -graphia ‘writing’.
Example sentences
“The illness left him with dysgraphia, destroying his writing career forever.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
