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doctorling

doctorling noun: a minor, subordinate, or inferior doctor.

Noun

doctorling (plural doctorlings)

  1. (derogatory) A minor, subordinate, or inferior doctor
    • Such is the infallible decision of our German "theologasters" and doctorlings.1853, The Protestant Quarterly Review, volume 10, page 109
    • That last dreadful clause destroyed the fair vision of each sanguine and sanguinary doctorling, of a “free blow," at lectures and a five dollar diploma.1861, Vanity Fair, volume 3, page 6

Forms of doctorling

pluraldoctorlings

Origin of doctorling

From doctor + -ling.

Questions about doctorling

What does doctorling mean?
Doctorling means a minor, subordinate, or inferior doctor.
What part of speech is doctorling?
Doctorling is a noun.
What is the plural of doctorling?
The plural of doctorling is doctorlings.

Words near doctorling in the dictionary

  1. doctorized
  2. doctorizes
  3. doctorizing
  4. doctorless
  5. doctorlike
  6. doctorling
  7. doctorlings
  8. doctorly
  9. Doctorow
  10. Doctorowian
  11. doctors

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