professorling

professorling

English

Etymology

From professor +‎ -ling.

Noun

professorling (plural professorlings)

1. (obsolete) a young and unexperienced professor
   • 1909, Herbert George Wells, Twelve Stories and A Dream

     "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 ..."

   • 1920, Granville Stanley Hall, Recreations of a Psychologist

     "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."