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cursor dipped in X
n. There are a couple of metaphors in English of the form pen dipped in X (perhaps the most common values of X are acid , bile , and vitriol ). These map over neatly to this hackish usage (the cursor being what moves, leaving letters behind, when one is composing on-line).