Professorling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a young and unexperienced professor obsolete

    ""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 ...""

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""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 ...""

Etymology

From professor + -ling.

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