Underfellow

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An underling; a subordinate. archaic
  2. 2
    A mean, low man. archaic

    "the carried him some miles thence, to a house of a principal officer of that country; who, with no more civility, though with much more business, than those under-fellows had showed"

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"the carried him some miles thence, to a house of a principal officer of that country; who, with no more civility, though with much more business, than those under-fellows had showed"

Etymology

From under- + fellow.

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