What does clerkling mean?
Clerkling means A young or insignificant clerk..
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/ˈklɑɹk.lɪŋ/ · noun
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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Clerkling means A young or insignificant clerk..
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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!
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