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clerky

clerky adjective: clerklike; clerkish.

Adjective

clerky (comparative more clerky, superlative most clerky)

  1. clerklike; clerkish
    • Returning, he took from his desk Christie's New Commercial Plants and the old Culpepper that I had given him, opened and laid them side by side with a clerky air, all trace of passion gone from his face, read first in one and then in the other, and paused with pen behind his ear.1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's

Forms of clerky

comparativemore clerky
superlativemost clerky

Origin of clerky

From clerk + -y.

Questions about clerky

What does clerky mean?
Clerky means clerklike; clerkish.
What part of speech is clerky?
Clerky is an adjective.

Words near clerky in the dictionary

  1. clerks of the pipe
  2. clerks of the works
  3. clerks of works
  4. clerkship
  5. clerkships
  6. clerky
  7. Clermont
  8. Clermont County
  9. Clermont-Ferrand
  10. clerocidin
  11. clerocracies

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