hieroglyphics
Britishnoun
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a form of writing, esp as used in ancient Egypt, in which pictures or symbols are used to represent objects, concepts, or sounds
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difficult or undecipherable writing
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Present-day writing that is hard to decipher or understand is sometimes jokingly called “hieroglyphics.”
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Casual and escalated into Saafir’s crew Hobo Junction taking on all of Hieroglyphics.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
The first show was a play called Hieroglyphics by Anne Donovan, author of Buddha Da.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2024
Hieroglyphics also had ways of adding context in the form of a set of mute symbols known as “classifiers.”
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2020
Hieroglyphics denoting a “TKO” - technical knock out -are above the skull.
From Washington Times • Sep. 29, 2017
And so, when Hieroglyphics was finished, somewhere about May 1899, I set about "A Fragment of Life" and wrote the first chapter with the greatest relish and the utmost ease.
From The House of Souls by Machen, Arthur
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