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Definition of Blue-pencil
1. Verb. Cut or eliminate. "They won't blue-pencil the story "; "She edited the juiciest scenes"
Definition of Blue-pencil
1. Verb. To edit, especially to censor, written documents. ¹
2. Verb. (politics slang) To use a line-item veto ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue-pencil
Literary usage of Blue-pencil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Confessions of a War Correspondent by William Gunn Shepherd (1917)
"Like sin (which a certain evangelist named after a certain legal holiday
declares "you can't beat") the censor's big blue pencil will, in time, ..."
2. A Practical Guide for Authors in Their Relations with Publishers and Printers by William Stone Booth (1907)
"THE BLUE PENCIL WHEN a man has something to say, he will find his chief difficulty
to be, not with grammar nor punctuation, but with the tendency to ..."
3. The Province of Burma: A Report Prepared on Behalf of the University of Chicago by Alleyne Ireland (1907)
"After the holding has been completely lined off on the map, the holding- marker
should write down in blue pencil, in the centre of the holding, ..."
4. Judge Richard Reid a Biography by Elizabeth Jameson Reid (1886)
"The defendant knew that Judge Bowden sat in the case, and as one Judge had written
marginal words in blue pencil, Judge Bowden, the other sitting Judge, ..."
5. Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts by Willard Cope Brinton (1914)
"Red photographs as black, and a zinc plate was obtained which shows the marking
such as would be used with a blue pencil when Ben Day work is ordered from ..."
6. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"THE BLUE PENCIL Is a small implement, but its office is not a despicable one.
Perhaps it even deserves to ... Our thanks to Miss Brace and her blue pencil! ..."
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