Recently I came across the expression "coarse hand" and couldn't find its meaning. For example,
— Can you read?
— No, only coarse hand.
What does this mean?
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This is a term Twain used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
I was a good deal astonished, but when I got my breath I asked her what the paper was about, and she asked me if I had read it, and I said no, and she asked me if I could read writing, and I told her "no, only coarse-hand," and then she said the paper warn't anything but a book-mark to keep her place, and I might go and play now.
Best Answer
The phrase was completely unknown to me, as I suspect it is to anybody who has not encountered it in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Googling for "coarse-hand" gives this as the first result: "Coarse hand means printing as opposed to cursive writing, in which the letters are connected."
This explanation seems to make sense, but I have not found it in any dictionary; so this was a reasonable question but only when you gave us the source.