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professorling en · NOUN

Etymology

From professor + -ling.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) a young and unexperienced professor
   • "The thing's a provincial professorling in the very act of budding, and I thank the Lord devoutly that but for the precious gift of indolence I also might have gone this way to D.Sc. and destruction ..." 1909, Herbert George Wells, Twelve Stories and A Dream:
   • "It is a good transcript, I think, of the outer and inner life of a typical small western college and of the experiences of a young professorling." 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist:

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