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writer (n.)
Old English
writere
"one who can write, clerk; one who produces books or literary compositions," agent noun from
writan
(see
write
(v.)). Meaning "sign-painter" is from 1837.
Writer's cramp
attested by 1843;
writer's block
by 1950.
