Underling \Un"der*ling\, n. [Under + -ling.]
1. An inferior person or agent; a subordinate; a low-ranking
employee. --Milton.
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2. Hence, A mean, sorry fellow. --Milton.
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
underling
n : an assistant subject to the authority or control of another
[syn: subordinate, subsidiary, foot soldier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "underling":
assistant, cog, commonality, commonalty, creature, dependent,
employee, feudatory, flunky, follower, hanger-on, helper,
hoi polloi, homager, inferior, junior, lackey, liege, liege man,
lightweight, lower class, lower orders, masses, minion, myrmidon,
pawn, peon, poor relation, retainer, right-hand man, scrub,
second fiddle, secondary, serf, servant, slave, stooge, subaltern,
subordinate, third stringer, understrapper, vassal, yeoman,
yes-man
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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