subs. (journalists’).—I lack work; such stuff as may be turned out by the yard without reference to quality.
1888. HAGGARD, Mr. Meeson’s Will, c. 1. And five-and-twenty tame authors (who were illustrated by thirteen tame artists) sat—at salaries ranging from one to five hundred a year—in vault-like hutches in the basement, and week by week poured out that HAT-WORK for which Meeson’s was justly famous.
