Meaning of cacography in English:
cacography
Pronunciation /kəˈkɒɡrəfi/
noun
mass nounarchaic Bad handwriting or spelling.
‘‘We have a national affliction, and it's called cacography - that means ‘illegible handwriting.’’
- ‘He blows off his steam with such an eagerness that he forgets for a time, or nearly forgets, his cacography.’
- ‘And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography.’
- ‘It is amusing to notice his lectures to Jeffrey, on his cacography, which may be attributed to a similar restlessness of mind.’
illegible handwriting, hurried handwriting, untidy handwriting, squiggle, squiggles, jottings
Origin
Late 16th century from Greek kakos ‘bad’, on the pattern of orthography.