checkerwork
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
checkerwork (countable and uncountable, plural checkerworks)
- Synonym of checkwork.
- (figuratively) A mishmash
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
- How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.
References
- “checkerwork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.