Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pen (and ink) v.

to stink.

1892		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘The Rhyme of the Rusher’ in Sporting Times 29 Oct. n.p.: He looked at the note, and the air began / With his language to pen and ink.
1906		Sun. Times (Perth) 11 Nov. 4/7: The yard where the dust-bins pen-and-ink.
1932		‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl. 5: ’Strewth, yer ‘King Death’ don’t arf ‘Pen and Ink’.
a.1945		L. Payne private coll. n.p.: Stink Pen & Ink.
1969		S.T. Kendall Up the Frog 12: ’Is plates o’ meat pen and ink.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1995		J. Cameron Vinnie Got Blown Away 129: His feet pen and ink.
2000		T. Udo Vatican Bloodbath 63: It fackin pen and fackin inks in ’ere!
2003		B. Dark Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl.