Bob Cratchit

English thumb|Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim as depicted in the 1870s by Fred Barnard Etymology After the character from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Noun A humble and poor man, often a clerk or money manager for a more wealthy man. en Though Beth and Britt don't have much money, the Bob Cratchit of this little story needs to sue Quicken to track their investments. 219 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Quicken_2007_For_Dummies/EtKaEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+bob+cratchit+of%22+-scrooge+-%22christmas+carol%22+-baptist+-israel+-samuel&pg=PA219&printsec=frontcover Wiley Quicken 2007 For Dummies Stephen L. Nelson 2006 en There, too, is the poor merchant's clerk, the Bob Cratchit of a rather better kind, who slaves in a merchant's office from nine till six, and often until late in the night, for a wretched pittance of thirty shillings a-week! 190 https://www.google.com/books/edition/After_Office_hours/7kBWAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+bob+cratchit+of%22+-scrooge+-%22christmas+carol%22+-baptist+-israel+-samuel&pg=PA190&printsec=frontcover Ward and Lock After Office-hours Edmund Hodgson Yates 1863 en but the poor of the nineteenth century wanted to know why they lacked a home and regular income when everybody else—even the Bob Cratchits— seemed to have them. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Criminal_History_of_Mankind/-m5uCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22bob+cratchits%22+-scrooge+-%22christmas+carol%22+-baptist+-israel+-samuel&pg=PT600&printsec=frontcover Diversion Books A Criminal History of Mankind Colin Wilson 2015 en eponyms terms derived from Dickensian works en A Christmas Carol Fictional characters