The standard term in Canadian, UK, and Irish English for what Americans simply call a 'colored pencil' — a pencil filled with colored wax or pigment used for drawing and coloring. The compound phrase distinguishes it from both regular graphite pencils and waxy crayon sticks. In Canada especially, 'pencil crayon' is the default and unambiguous term, and calling them anything else in a classroom might earn you a puzzled look from the teacher.
She spent the afternoon coloring the map with pencil crayons, using green for the forests and blue for the rivers.
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(Canada, UK, Ireland) A coloured pencil.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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