| has gloss | eng: A printers devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type. A number of famous men served as printers devils in their youth, including Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Fuller, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Joel Chandler Harris, Warren Harding, John Kellogg, Lyndon Johnson, Hoodoo Brown, Joseph Lyons, and Lázaro Cárdenas. Derivation The origin of printers devil is not definitively known. Various competing theories of the phrases origin follow. |
