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noun
Person who experiments carelessly, without paying attention to the possible consequences of their experiments and without the ability to contain them should they spiral out of control.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
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History
Calque of French apprenti-sorcier, itself a calque of German Zauberlehrling.
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