More fully printer's devil. A young assistant (sometimes the youngest apprentice) in a printing office. Now chiefly historical.
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释义 | society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > errand-boy (3) devil1683 More fully printer's devil. A young assistant (sometimes the youngest apprentice) in a printing office. Now chiefly historical. printer's devil1716 an errand boy or apprentice in a printing office; = devil, n. 8a. copy-boy1888 one who takes copy from the writer to the printer; a publisher's errand boy. |
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