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单词 disper
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dispern.

Forms: 1800s dispar (irregular), 1800s disper.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Latin Etymon: Latin dispertīre.
Etymology: Apparently < disper- (in classical Latin dispertīre to divide, to distribute, to assign: see depart v.), with reference to the distribution of food to students.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdisper.
Winchester College slang.
A portion of food.
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1840 W. Howitt Visits to Remarkable Places 471 The scholars [at Winchester] give the name of dispers to their breakfasts, suppers, and lunchions.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Dispar..a commons or share. North.
1870 R. B. Mansfield School Life Winchester Coll. 84 (Farmer at Cat's Head) [The dinner] was divided into portions (Dispars); there were..six of these to a shoulder, and eight to a leg of mutton.
1891 R. G. K. Wrench Winchester Word-bk. Dispers are thus divided:—Fat flab, Fleshy, Cat's head, Long disper, Middle cut, Rack, Cut.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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