learnling

Definitions

One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice

nonstandard, rare

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.”

“Perchance in upland pastures there may stray Some learnling of the elder fold⟳, to teach⟳ [...]”

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