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clerkling

noun
/ˈklɑɹk.lɪŋ/

Etymology

From clerk + -ling.

  1. derived from κληρικός — “of the clergy”
  2. derived from clēricus
  3. inherited from clerc
  4. inherited from clerc
  5. suffixed as clerkling — “clerk + ling”

Definitions

  1. A young or insignificant clerk.

    • Every Spaniard that spoke to him, whether clerkling or underling, was presented as a leading merchant, a marquis, or a count, while on the other hand any one who passed him by was a greenhorn, a petty official, a nobody!
    • A little after, he sent a lad, as he were the priest's clerkling that had confessed her, to the lady to ask if she wot of were come thither again.
    • Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA