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professorling

noun

Etymology

From professor + -ling.

  1. derived from professor
  2. derived from proffessur
  3. inherited from professor,professour
  4. suffixed as professorling — “professor + ling”

Definitions

  1. 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 ..."
    • "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."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA