karkunn.
/kɑːˈkuːn/, U.S. /kɑrˈkun/ Anglo-Indian.
A clerk.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > clerical
clerk1512
underwriter1654
conicopoly1680
karkun1803
babu1823
pen-pusher1875
pencil pusher1881
mabalane1925
paper-pusher1942
1803 Duke of Wellington Let. 1 Aug. in Dispatches (1837) II. 161 A carkoon whom he sent to me this morning.
1816 M. Elphinstone in Q. Rev. (1884) 374 The carcoon who brought it missed the detachment.
1858 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India III. viii. i. 267 ‘He laboured’, says Duff, ‘as assiduously as any carcoon under his government.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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