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clerky en · ADJ

Etymology

From clerk + -y.

Meanings

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:

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