Old-fashioned an apprentice in a print shop
Origin of printer's devil
so called uncertain or unknown; perhaps because apprentices working at early printing presses often became covered with black inkprinter's devil
print·er's devilWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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printer's devil
noun
An apprentice in a printing establishment.
Origin of printer's devil
From the apprentice becoming black from the inkTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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