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Hieroglyph (Noun)

A writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt.

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible).

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

The doctor's handwriting was a hieroglyph that only a few hospital staff could decipher.
After years of using computers, my grandmother's cursive had devolved into a hieroglyph that no one in the family could read.
The chicken scratch on the blackboard was a hieroglyph that confused even the most diligent students.
As a child, I thought my mom's messy writing was a hieroglyph that held secret messages only she could understand.
The engineer's rapid-fire scribbles on the whiteboard formed a hieroglyph that looked like a mix of science and magic to the untrained eye.