pen and inkery,phr.nonce-use. [f.prec. + -ery.] The use of pen and ink; an author's business. c1909W. De Morgan in A. M. W. Stirling W. De Morgan & his Wife (1922) xiv. 328, I do wish I had paid more attention to them [sc. birds, flowers, and trees] in my time—they would come in so useful in these later days of pen-and-inkery.