ink-slinger

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ink-slinger

slang A writer, especially one who produces a large amount of low-quality material for a living. I spent a lot of time after college as an ink-slinger for various newspapers and magazines while working on my first novel.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Pliny	PLIN-ee (English)	History
Warinhari	-	Ancient Germanic
JoËLle	zho-EL	French
Sandra	SAHN-drah (Italian, Dutch, Finnish), SAN-drə (English), ZAHN-drah (German)	Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic,
DuŠAn	-	Czech, Serbian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovene, Macedonian
Bradley	BRAD-lee	English