errand boy vs mandarin

errand boy

noun
  • Someone in a responsible position who performs relatively menial tasks for a senior manager. 

  • A male employed to run errands. 

mandarin

noun
  • A senior civil servant. 

  • A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. 

  • A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat. 

  • A small, sweet citrus fruit. 

  • A tree of the species Citrus reticulata. 

  • An orange colour. 

  • A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles. 

adj
  • Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist. 

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