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Printer's devil   /prˈɪntərz dˈɛvəl/   Listen
Printer's devil

noun
1.
An apprentice in a printing establishment.





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"Printer's devil" Quotes from Famous Books



... introduce myself, in turn, as Harry Walton, junior apprentice in the office of the 'Centreville Gazette,' sometimes profanely called 'printer's devil.'" ...
— Risen from the Ranks - Harry Walton's Success • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... "Copy!" shouted the printer's devil, as he came plunging down three steps at a bound from the compositors' room above. "Copy!" he screamed, as he dove into the outer office where that article was usually kept, ...
— Wild Northern Scenes - Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod • S. H. Hammond
... a very respectable authour, he told us a curious circumstance in his life, which was, that he had married a printer's devil. REYNOLDS. 'A printer's devil, Sir! Why, I thought a printer's devil was a creature with a black face and in rags.' JOHNSON. 'Yes, Sir. But I suppose, he had her face washed, and put clean clothes on her. (Then looking very serious, and very earnest.) And she ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell


Words linked to "Printer's devil" :   apprentice, learner, prentice


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