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Clerk vs Clerkling - What's the difference?

clerk | clerkling |

As nouns the difference between clerk and clerkling

is that clerk is one who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc; an office worker while clerkling is a clerk, emphasizing his insignificance or young age.

As a verb clerk

is to act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk.

clerk

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks , however, understood him very well.
  • A facilitator of a Quaker meeting for business affairs.
  • (lb) In the Church of England, the layman that assists in the church service, especially in reading the responses (also called parish clerk ).
  • *1595 , (William Shakespeare), ,
  • *:God save the King! Will no man say, amen? / Am I both priest and clerk ? Well then, amen.

    • Related terms

    * clergy * clergyman * cleric * clerical

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk
    • The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.

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    clerkling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a clerk, emphasizing his insignificance or young age
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Jose Rizal, title=The Reign of Greed, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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! }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=, author=Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), translated by John Payne (1842-1916), title=The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Sinclair Lewis, title=The Job, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast. }}