释义 |
pencil-pusher noun- a person who works with words; a clerk or secretary US, 1881
Usually derisive. - — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 31, 1945
- [F]or a pencil-pusher he sure could flash plenty of Uncle Sam’s I.O.U.’s. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 69, 1946
- — Jerry Robertson, Oil Slanguage, p. 95, 1954
- I just love men who work hard, I mean who work with their hands. Yeah, I hate pencil pushers. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 204, 1957
- in the US Air Force, the navigator on a bomber aircraft US
- — American Speech, p. 310, December 1946: “More air force slang”
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