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单词 hedge-school
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hedge-schooln.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhedge-school.
A school held by a hedge-side or in the open air, as was once common in Ireland; hence, a poor, mean, low-class school.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > hedge- or bush-school
hedge-school1807
bush-school1852
1807 Edinb. Rev. 10 53 The lower Irish are sufficiently well taught, even in their hedge-schools.
1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. II. 81 Bristol [has] a few charity-schools, and two hedge-schools with only one master.
1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 110 The worthy pedagogue selected the first green spot on the sunny side of a quickset-thorn hedge..and there..carried on the work of instruction. From this circumstance the name of Hedge School originated.
1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. viii. 194 The hedge-school, a name of contempt for institutions in which the smatterings of knowledge could only be obtained.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 394/1 The workmen are Irish; taken from common hedge schools.

Derivatives

hedge-ˈschoolmaster n.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > other schoolteachers
gerund-grinder1710
hedge-schoolmaster1830
grammatist1850
discipline master1863
quizmaster1878
careers master1943
1830 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry II. 198 What was Plato himself but a hedge schoolmaster?
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists vi. 299 Paddy Byrne, the hedge-schoolmaster, took him in hand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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