[f. UGLY a. + -OGRAPHY. Used only by Southey.] Bad handwriting; uncouth spelling. Hence Uglyographize v. trans., to spell uncouthly.
1804. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 285. I do beseech you mend your uglyography. Ibid. (1805), Madoc (1807), II. Notes, 200. Quetzalcohuatl, for such is the uglyography of his name. Ibid. (1834), Doctor, ccxxiii. (1848), 604. How it would have been … uglyographised by Elphinstone … I know not.
