understrapper
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of understrapper
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Michael Palin also threatened to "make the torture worse by shouting a lot", a role that fell to Sajid Javid, a Treasury understrapper who bellows a very great deal.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2013
This was the real touchstone; the first was a mere preliminary observation by a medical understrapper; but this was conducted by a more knowing doctor.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens
The senior understrapper knew that Melmotte would have asked for "his Secretary," and not for Mr Grendall, but for the rumours.
From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Well, I suppose some understrapper there got to hear of it, and probably sold the thing to one of the men who gather up garbage for the "Liar."
From Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
This was to instruct his understrapper to fill the theatre with a rabble and have her hissed off the stage.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
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