Scribbledehobble

— Wiktionary, hobbledehoy (retrieved 14 June 2017)

There’s some question as to the exact date James Joyce came up with this word. It’s a fact that when Thomas E. Connolly transcribed and published one of James Joyce’s notebooks in 1961, it was under the title, “Scribbledehobble” in keeping with the first word in the book’s text.

This notebook held the notes for his book “Finnegans Wake” that was published in 1939, and was seventeen years in the writing after his book “Ulysses” was published in 1922.

It isn’t difficult to see how James Joyce would feel compelled to mesh scribble with hobbledehoy to come up with scribbledehobble to describe either hurried, messy writing or the workbook with ideas written down quickly with little to no concern for appearance.

— ELYSE BRUCE, Scribbledehobble (2016)

Anna Karenina principle

The Anna Karenina principle describes an endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency has been avoided. The name of the principle derives from Leo Tolstoy's book Anna Karenina, which begins:

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

— Wikipedia, Anna Karenina principle (retrieved 14 June 2017)

Chesterton’s fence

Chesterton’s fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.

— Wikipedia, Chesterton’s fence (retrieved 14 June 2017)

cacophemism

Cacophemism is a word or expression that's generally perceived as harsh, impolite, or offensive, although it may be used in a humorous context. Similar to dysphemism. Contrast with euphemism.

— RICHARD NORDQUIST, in Glossary of Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms

hobbledehoyhood

The period or time of being a hobbledehoy; awkwardness adolescence.

— Wicktionary, hobbledehoyhood (retrieved 15 June 2017)

scribbledecobbled

A cacophemism that may be deployed when waging war against management terrorists who seek silver bullets while waving the banner of Agile.

— yet another terrorist

Jack of all Trades : Master of One

One of the remarkable things about Mr. Rogers’ work is that, without the preliminary trial-by-error which afflicts most would-be designers of fine books, his first book issued by the Riverside Press was the production of an accomplished master of his art. Thus one is unable to see retrogression or progression in the books shown in this exhibition, and although at first glance this seems a dubious compliment, on consideration it will be seen to be very high praise.

— DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE, in The Work of Bruce Rogers (1939)

By James Gillray (died 1815) [Public domain],
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