checkerwork

English

Alternative forms

• chequerwork

Etymology

From checker +‎ work.

Noun

checkerwork (countable and uncountable, plural checkerworks)

1. Synonym of checkwork
2. (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.