Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
quill driver ExamplesWord Origin noun Facetious.
- a person who does a great deal of writing.
Origin of quill driver First recorded in 1750–60 Related formsquill driving, noun Examples from the Web for quill driver Historical Examples of quill driver
A tyrannical little beast of a quill-driver from the Treasury department.
Joseph Conrad
The very sight of that quill-driver is like poison and brimstone to me.
Friedrich Schiller
I believe that prefect’s quill-driver was humbugging us when he said Asgard was only ten days’ sail up.’
Charles Kingsley
This quill-driver will publish details of how my wife scolds, which will make me the laughing-stock of all the town.
Alexandre Dumas
A mere cashier—a quill-driver, a—well, a man like me—even he has a little of what is called feeling, you know.
Henrik Ibsen