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Oxbridge|ˈɒksbrɪdʒ|
[Short for ‘Oxford and Cambridge’.]
A name used to designate the universities of Oxford and of Cambridge; the characteristics common to both, esp. as distinct from other universities in the British Isles. Also attrib. Cf. Camford.
1849Thackeray Pendennis I. xxix. 286 ‘Rough and ready, your chum seems,’ the Major said. ‘Somewhat different from your dandy friends at Oxbridge.’ 1906V. Woolf in Q. Bell Virginia Woolf (1972) I. 205 You see a pink cheeked boy whose only talk is of cricket..enter upon his first term at Oxbridge. 1907G. W. E. Russell Seeing & Hearing v. 35 We ran a neck-and-neck race at the University... In those days I little thought of settling down in Oxbridge. 1912H. G. Wells Marriage i. §1. 5 A..meretricious dressing-bag of imitation morocco, which had been one of her chief financial errors at Oxbridge. 1924E. F. Benson David of King's i. 5 Useless..to delude the intelligent reader into believing that it was Queen's Parade at Oxbridge or Prince's Parade at Camford. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences i. 20 He would often wish his sons to go to a public (boarding) school and to Oxbridge. 1958New Statesman 30 Aug. 244/1 Whatever its merits or demerits, Oxbridge remains first choice for a majority of university applicants. 1960Auden Homage to Clio 88 Oxbridge philosophers, to be cursory, Are products of a middle-class nursery. 1960Times 14 Mar. 13/4 The University ‘Rag’..is now more closely identified with what the jargon calls ‘Redbrick’ rather than ‘Oxbridge’, with the world of Kingsley Amis rather than that of the young Compton Mackenzie. 1964S. Brittan Treasury under Tories i. 21 One characteristic that Whitehall does have in common with other élite groups is its overwhelmingly Oxbridge character. 1967New Scientist 6 Apr. 39/2 Father is very likely public school and ‘Oxbridge’. Son is ‘redbrick’. 1973D. Robinson Rotten with Honour 9 We'll have—Hale... Twenty-six, Oxbridge, degree in languages. 1975Sunday Tel. 4 May 30/2 (heading) Fine win by Oxbridge. The Universities beat Worcestershire by 66 runs at Fenners. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 July 35/8 And as if to make the thing complete the prayer was often offered by a clergyman who read the liturgy with an Oxbridge accent even though he was a product of southern Ontario.
Hence Oxˈbridgean, -ian a. and n.
1959Cambr. Rev. 7 Feb. 315/1 They [sc. the Americans] are so polite, so ready to believe that the visiting Oxbridgean must find Yale or Harvard an anti-climax. 1959Guardian 14 Dec. 6/4 ‘The mere fact,’ you fretted, that such Oxbridgean institutions ‘have refused the student loan money may make their actions suspect’. 1960Mind LXIX. 419, I have wished I was reading one of those Oxbridgean philosophers who, had they taken the right turning early in life, would long ago have brought the filing and card-indexing systems of the British Civil Service up to a new peak of perfection. 1970Atlantic Monthly May 132 As apt as an eighteenth-century Oxbridgean with the Latin tag. 1971New Scientist 17 June 706 The ivy-covered, Oxbridgian atmosphere of Yale. |