clerked, adj. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

clerked adj.

[SE clerk, such ‘learned’ figures were automatically distrusted by the illiterate masses]

soothed, gulled, imposed upon.

1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: clerk’d soothed, funn’d, imposed on; The Cull will not be Clerk’d, i.e. He will not be caught or taken by fair Words: Nothing can be done with him.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1798		‘St Giles’s Greek’ in Sporting Mag. Dec. XIII 164/1: A poor old wiganowns flat was clerked at drop-a-cog by a couple of queer coves.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 18: Clerked, imposed upon.