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ˈquill-driver
[quill n.1 3 b.]
One who works with a quill or pen; a clerk or author. (Chiefly with contemptuous force.)
1760Voy. W. O. G. Vaughan I. 129 As good as any of the Grub-street Quill-drivers cou'd write. 1846Thackeray Crit. Rev. Wks. 1886 XXIII. 96 The quill-driver of the present day, with his doubtful position and small gains. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember II. xix. 379, I used..to do all my writing standing; and I strongly recommend the practice to brother quill-drivers.
So ˈquill-driving vbl. n. and ppl. a. (pres. pple.).
1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 319 Quill-driving Prigs, Flocked to St. James's. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans I. 181 Richmond..went to quill-driving till ten. 1829Scott Jrnl. 13 Jan., At such times I have wished myself a clerk, quill-driving for twopence per page. 1877O. Wilde Let. Aug. (1962) 47, I had two jolly letters yesterday, one from Bouncer who is quill-driving or going to. 1880Browning Clive 39 That greenhorn, that quill-driving clerk. |