Unscramble

m 3 i 1 m 3 e 1 o 1 g 2 r 1 a 1 p 3 h 4

10 letters · 20 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun a rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo)

verb print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph

originA genericization from a trade name coined by A. B. Dick in 1889. From μῖμος (mîmos) + -γράφος (-gráphos); by surface analysis, mimeo + -graph (but diachronically, mimeo came from mimeograph, not the reverse).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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