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quill-driver

noun

Definitions

  1. A clerk or hack writer

    A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher.

    • His brother, enraged at this insult, spoke to him very freely, which he returned no otherwise than by calling him quill-driver, and maccaroni of Mincing-lane.
    • Passenger.—What o'clock is it? Mr. Adams.—That's not proper language for a ship. It becomes only a quill-driver, a grass-comber, or a sugar-baker.
    • He wouldn't be terrified with a pack of lies by a cocky half-bred little quill-driver.

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