quill driver

noun

, Facetious.

1. a person who does a great deal of writing.

Other Words From

• quill driving noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of quill driver¹

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

What d'you mean by printing such awful doggerel as this, you depraved and dissolute ink-slinger—you imbecile quill-driver, you!

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"No more is the manager of this theater a judge of such things," cried the outraged quill-driver, bitterly.

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So the gods had given him the pen, and he was a writer—not a secretary, but a humble quill-driver.

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Isn't it an insult to think that I should be afraid of a starving quill-driver's vengeance?

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He must, in a word, be as methodical in his accounts as any quill driver ashore.

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