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Understrapper   Listen
noun
Understrapper  n.  A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. "This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Understrapper" Quotes from Famous Books



... their business in the infamous convict system, and now incapable of putting off their tyrannous insolence in the faces of free men. Several foot police—Vandemonians from the convict settlements—were stationed in the tent to enforce the mandate of Commissioner McPhee, or any understrapper who might resent the impatience of a digger, and order him to be propelled into the open on the toe of a regulation boot. The new hands bore the indignities carelessly, but the experienced diggers came up to the rough counter grimly and ...
— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson



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