inkhorn

1. (archaic) A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.Examples: "Goe good partner, goe get you to Francis Seacole, bid him bring his pen and inkehorne to the Gaole: we are now to examine thoſe men."; "[…]and one man among them was clothed with linnen, with a writers inkehorne by his side, and they went in and stood beside the brasen altar."; "Men in helmets have divided that, with swords; men in wigs, with quill and inkhorn, to divide it: and even more hateful these latter, if more peaceably; for the wig-method is at once irresistibler and baser."archaic

2. (used attributively, derogatory, of vocabulary) Something or someone pedantic, obscurely scholarly.Examples: "And ere that we will ſuffer ſuch a Prince, So kinde a Father of the Common-weale, To be diſgraced by an Inke-horne Mate, Wee and our Wiues and Children all will fight And haue our bodyes ſlaughtred by thy foes."; "The tale retained its bookish and even inkhorn appeal, since established short-story forms continued to be read, and new ones written."attributivederogatory