stenog

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

stenog (plural stenogs)

1. (dated, informal) A stenographer.
   • 1913, Everybody's Magazine, volume 28:

     When a girl's a young lady she's got to have a good supply of fresh skirts and clean shirt-waists. Men like to see their stenogs dressed clean and pretty.

   • 1925, The National Druggist, volume 55:

     The very stenogs who had scorned them before wanted them now.

   • 1940, John O'Hara, Pal Joey:

     As I said before I had cased this mouse and she was pretty but I knew she was no society debutante. Probably a stenog out of work but very cute.

Anagrams

• G-notes, Stonge, Tonges, gets on, gonest, tonges