pencil pusher
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
pencil pusher (plural pencil pushers)
- (informal, often derogatory) One who does routine office work; someone involved mainly in paperwork.
- Synonyms: office worker, bureaucrat, desk jockey, paper-pusher, pen-pusher
- 2012, Danielle Steel, The Sins of the Mother, Random House, →ISBN, page 285:
- “ […] I don't have her creative genius or her version. I'm a numbers man, like my father. A pencil pusher, as Amanda said.” With no balls, he added silently.
- 2013, Karin Slaughter, Busted, Random House, →ISBN:
- The internal investigator for the Macon Police Department had the dour, lifeless personality of a career pencil pusher.
Translations[edit]
one who does office work
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References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pencil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “pencil-pusher”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1462.