Learnling
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice nonstandard, rare
"So faulty was his knowledge that to this day impotent learnlings, who have drowned their little souls in printer's ink, find a cheap pleasure in holding up to ridicule the "ignorance," the "lack of system," the "fallacies and errors," of this man who was all heart; smiling contemptuously, too, these impotent learnlings, as if it were more honorable and more praiseworthy to be all head, no matter how diminutive and vapory."
Example
More examples"So faulty was his knowledge that to this day impotent learnlings, who have drowned their little souls in printer's ink, find a cheap pleasure in holding up to ridicule the "ignorance," the "lack of system," the "fallacies and errors," of this man who was all heart; smiling contemptuously, too, these impotent learnlings, as if it were more honorable and more praiseworthy to be all head, no matter how diminutive and vapory."
Etymology
From learn + -ling. Compare West Frisian learling (“pupil”), German Lehrling (“apprentice”), Norwegian lærling (“trainee; apprentice”).
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