professorling

plural professorlings

1. obsoletea young and unexperienced professor

   "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

   1 more example

   "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