authorling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

author +‎ -ling

Noun[edit]

authorling (plural authorlings)

  1. A young or insignificant author.
    • 1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies, page 263:
      It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]
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