Quill-driver

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher. colloquial

    "His brother, enraged at this insult, spoke to him very freely, which he returned no otherwise than by calling him quill-driver, and maccaroni of Mincing-lane."

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"His brother, enraged at this insult, spoke to him very freely, which he returned no otherwise than by calling him quill-driver, and maccaroni of Mincing-lane."

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