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I'm trying to think of a word that may or may not sound like progeny and prodigy but sort of means student or follower and is the sort of opposite to mentor.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Can anyone help me, or direct me to an online thesaurus that does antonyms as well as synonyms?

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:46 (twenty-three years ago)

protege?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Damnit - Mark S beat me.

Of course I would have spelt it wrong.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh ***!!!thankyou!!!*** mark! I always forget that word and it is such a good one too.

― toraneko (toraneko), Thursday, 5 September 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Semprini?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Porridge!

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Padawan!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Pessimist!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Perambulation!

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 5 September 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

In Roman times there was no letter 'J'. 'I' had to do double duty. 'I' is therefore a proto-'J'.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 September 2002 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know whether to laugh or cry ;)

― DG (D_To_The_G), Thursday, 5 September 2002 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Toraneko, was this word for your mother?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 September 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i am typing in roman times

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 5 September 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

No, no, Boxcubed: thay had not invented lowercase letters in those days. This is because they went around SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER ALL THE TIME, so lowercase was unnecessary.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 5 September 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

as was "U," BOXCVBED!

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 5 September 2002 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

truly the greatest civilization

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 5 September 2002 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Not for my mother!

I found someone whose ... I wanted to be.

It was the whole 1984 thing, if I didn't know the word for it I couldn't conceptualise it properly either. The word prodigy was jumping into the blank space and images of a young boy in tails playing a grand piano crossfaded with the Firestarter video clip kept on getting in the way of my thoughts.

Also I was trying to write a blog entry about it and I was having a lot of trouble expressing myself.

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 6 September 2002 05:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Piccadilly ?

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 7 September 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

syncophant?

― Queen G (Queeng), Saturday, 7 September 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

porcumapine?

― chris (chris), Saturday, 7 September 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

pillowtalk?

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 8 September 2002 04:46 (twenty-three years ago)

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