clerkling
noun/ˈklɑɹk.lɪŋ/
Etymology From clerk + -ling.
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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!1912, Jose Rizal, The Reign of Greed:
- 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.1886, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), translated by John Payne (1842-1916), The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio:
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- Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast.1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Job: