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▪ I. schoolie|ˈskuːlɪ|
Also scheulie.
[f. school n.1 + -ie.]
a. north. dial. and Austral. A schoolteacher.
1901in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 250/2 That only three children out of a hundred have been absent on an average throughout twelve months will strike the ordinary scheulie..with astonishment. 1907N. Spielvogel Cocky Farmer 33 The prettiest of all the girls was the schoolie, and didn't she lead the lads a dance. 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vii. 179 ‘What a lot I've got to teach you!’ said Christopher smiling. ‘Schoolie.’ ‘Well, of course I'm a schoolie. What else could you expect?’ 1960S. H. Courtier Gently dust Corpse xiii. 189 She was away at college, being taught to be a schoolie all that time. 1980Globe & Laurel July/Aug. 198/2 At Lydd and Hythe, we enjoyed such epics as the formation of the Nelson brick (Doctor, Dentist, Padre and Schoolie).
b. slang. In the Navy, a classroom instructor.
1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 151 Schoolie, a naval schoolmaster. 1964J. Hale Grudge Fight vii. 97 The E.R.A. instructors, the P.T. instructors, the gunnery instructors, the schoolies began to..brace themselves for another day of ramming drill and P.T. and lathe work and chipping and filing and maths., mechanics, machine drawing, naval history..into the minds and bodies of eight divisions of apprentices. 1977Navy News Dec. 12/2 The official announcement says that in meeting the needs of the Navy during the past 20 years the role of instructor officers—the schoolies—has changed significantly.
▪ II. schoolie, n.2 Angling colloq.|ˈskuːlɪ|
[f. school n.2 + -ie; cf. the rare earlier schooly n. with a more specialized sense.]
Any small fish that is normally found in a school or shoal.
1980Outdoor Life (U.S.) (Northeast ed.) Oct. 122/2, I asked Mann about using the worm on schoolies and learned that indeed he had fished plastic crawlers behind a cork quite a bit larger than the Skimmer Head. 1986Sea Angling Handbk. Summer 41/2, I was amazed at..the fight this schoolie put up. 1987Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 3 July (Great Outdoors Suppl.) 5/5 The smaller ‘schoolies’ are particularly fond of beach worms but will accept most surf baits. |