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Quill-driver. World English Historical Dictionary

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Quill-driver. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1910, rev. 2025. Quill-driver [QUILL sb.1 3 b.] One who works with a quill or pen; a clerk or author. (Chiefly with contemptuous force.)

1 1760.  Voy. W. O. G. Vaughan, I. 129. As good as any of the Grub-street Quill-drivers cou’d write.

2 1846.  Thackeray, Crit. Rev., Wks. 1886, XXIII. 96. The quill-driver of the present day, with his doubtful position and small gains.

3 1887.  T. 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.

4   So Quill-driving vbl. sb. and ppl. a. (pres. pple.).

5 1719.  D’Urfey, Pills (1872), IV. 319. Quill-driving Prigs, Flock’d to St. James’s.

6 1756.  Toldervy, Hist. 2 Orphans, I. 181. Richmond … went to quill-driving till ten.

7 1829.  Scott, Jrnl., 13 Jan. At such times I have wished myself a clerk, quill-driving for twopence per page.

8 1880.  Browning, Clive, 39. That greenhorn, that quill-driving clerk.

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