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pen-pusher|ˈpɛnˌpʊʃə(r)|
[f. pen n.2 + pusher.]
One who is engaged in writing or desk work; a clerk; a writer (freq. derogatory).
1911Busy Man's Mag. Jan. 65/2 That fellow was a pen⁓pusher in a dough joint—I mean a bank clerk. 1930Time & Tide 24 May 663/2 Clerking! My God, any tuppenny ha'penny pen-pusher can be a clerk. 1940Manch. Guardian Weekly 22 Mar. 228 From his point of view it is much better to be a pen-pusher in..obscurity than a corpse. 1948‘N. Shute’ No Highway vii. 173 Who the hell are you, anyway? Just a bloody penpusher. 1952A. Grimble Pattern of Islands 177, I do not suppose that George was particularly interested in Stevenson as a writing man—he never had much time for pen-pushers, as he called them. 1954Wodehouse Jeeves & Feudal Spirit ix. 80 Florence tells me that La Morehead is one of the more costly of our female pen-pushers and has to have purses of gold flung to her in great profusion before she will sign on the dotted line. 1957J. Braine Room at Top iii. 31, I saw myself, compared with him, as the Town Hall Clerk, the subordinate pen-pusher, halfway to being a zombie, and I tasted the sourness of envy. 1972Guardian 23 Oct. 9/3 The more assiduous pen-pushers among London Transport's 6,000 administrative, technical, clerical and control staff.
So ˈpen-pushing vbl. n., writing by hand.
1936‘G. Orwell’ Keep Aspidistra Flying iii. 61 He dreaded..going to work... Pen-pushing in some filthy office—God! 1952A. Grimble Pattern of Islands 179, I knew that Charles Workman would have made a better job of the pen-pushing than I did. 1972W. A. Pantin Oxf. Life iv. 53 These volumes represent a great mass of praiseworthy industry.., whether pen-pushing or typewriter-bashing. |