English Dictionary

penman

noun

A scribe, or person who copies texts. / A person with writing skills; a journalist or other author. / (slang) A forger.

The penman carefully wrote down the important information.

意味（1）

A scribe, or person who copies texts.

意味（2）

A person with writing skills; a journalist or other author.

Well, I often wish I were a penman; but I never could do it. I’ll read any day as long as you like, but that writing, I could never manage.

意味（3）

(slang) A forger.

Forgers, counterfeiters (penmen) and other such intellectuals have a certain standing in the underworld and even pickpockets are respected more or less as the masters of a difficult art, but they do not rank with the princes of the big con […]