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quill-drivers

quill-drivers is the plural of quill-driver.

Meaning of quill-driver

Noun

quill-driver (plural quill-drivers)

  1. (colloquial) A clerk or hack writer; a pen-pusher.
    • 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.1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 263

Questions about quill-drivers

What is quill-drivers the plural of?
Quill-drivers is the plural of quill-driver.

Words near quill-drivers in the dictionary

  1. quill pen
  2. quill pens
  3. quill pig
  4. quill pigs
  5. quill-driver
  6. quill-drivers
  7. Quillagua
  8. quillai
  9. quillaia
  10. quillais
  11. quillaja

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