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bluepencilling

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blue-pen⋅cil

[bloo-pen-suhl]
–verb (used with object), -ciled, -cil⋅ing or (especially British) -cilled, -cil⋅ling.
to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.

Origin:
1885–90
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