authorling
nounEtymology From author + -ling.
1
A young or insignificant author.
- 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 […]1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies, page 263: