"clerkling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From clerk + -ling.",
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      "form": "clerklings",
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          "ref": "1912, Jose Rizal, The Reign of Greed",
          "text": "Every Spaniard that spoke to him, whether clerkling or underling, was presented as a leading merchant, a marquis, or a count, while on the other hand any one who passed him by was a greenhorn, a petty official, a nobody!",
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          "ref": "1886, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), translated by John Payne (1842-1916), The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio",
          "text": "A little after, he sent a lad, as he were the priest's clerkling that had confessed her, to the lady to ask if she wot of were come thither again.",
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          "ref": "1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Job",
          "text": "Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast.",
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        "A young or insignificant clerk."
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      "ipa": "/ˈklɑɹk.lɪŋ/"
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