Meaning of clerkling | Babel Free

Definitions

A young or insignificant clerk.

Examples

“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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