Ink pen
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A writing pen. US, pin-pen-merger, retronym
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In language varieties with a vowel merger, words that formerly were audibly distinguishable become homophonous, and one way to restore some audible differentiability to such a pair is by retronymy.