Dictionary

typewritery en · ADJ

Etymology

From typewriter + -y.

Meanings

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a typewriter.
   • Naturally, it looks "typewritery," but it is not displeasing, and is quite neat. 1904, Process Review and Journal of Electrotyping, volumes 9-10, page 444:
   • Indeed, the serial data transmission method that we looked at in the preceding section was originally worked out to allow typewritery machines called teletypes (you sometimes see them in very old movies) to talk to early computers. 2012, Alan Trevennor, Practical AVR Microcontrollers: Games, Gadgets, and Home Automation with the Microcontroller Used in the Arduino, Apress, →ISBN, page 374:
   • Its etchings, by Herbert Nye, are steeped in the spirit of the story. The type, imitated, with supposed improvements, from a quarto Elzevir (a type not compressed like that of the pocket Elzevirs), is too modern in its businesslike roundness and with its typewritery short tails to the bs and ds, ps and qs. 1893 November 9, The Nation, volume 57, number 1480, page 350:

Forms

Synonyms

typewriterlike