clerky

English

Etymology

From clerk +‎ -y.

Adjective

clerky (comparative more clerky, superlative most clerky)

1. clerklike; clerkish
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, “Wireless”, in Scribner's:

     Returning, he took from his desk Christie's New Commercial Plants and the old Culpepper that I had given him, opened and laid them side by side with a clerky air, all trace of passion gone from his face, read first in one and then in the other, and paused with pen behind his ear.