Clerkling

Quick meaning: Clerkling is a noun meaning A young or insignificant clerk.

Meaning

A young or insignificant clerk.

Example Sentences

Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast.

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.

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!

Word Forms

• clerklings

Related Words

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