clerkling
/ˈklɑɹk.lɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A young or insignificant clerk.
Example Sentences
- "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!"
- "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."
- "Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast."