单词 | plate-glasser |
释义 | > as lemmasplate-ˈglasser plate-ˈglasser n. a student or graduate of one of the new British universities founded in the 1960s. ΘΚΠ society > education > member of university > [noun] > (former) specific university or college mountainer?a1425 Cantabrigianc1540 Oxonianc1540 Sorbonist1560 Oxford man1590 Oxfordian1645 Johnian1655 hog1690 Harvardian1702 squil1721 Cantab1751 king's man1751 Wadhamite1760 Princetonian1807 Brunonian1829 merchant tailor1829 Trinitarian1852 houseman1868 polytechnician1871 Mertonian1883 Cheltonian1887 Girtonian1887 Girtonite1894 Newnhamite1896 woman1896 normalien1904 Somervillian1904 Orangeman1908 Tab1914 Ivy Leaguer1943 Oxbridgean1959 plate-glasser1968 Yalie1969 1968 Economist 1 June 47/1 A man from Aberystwyth got into the Foreign Service, along with two plate-glassers, one red-brick man, one Dubliner, nine from Oxford and eleven from Cambridge. 1994 Guardian 26 Sept. ii. 2/5 Oxbridge man runs the quality papers, occupying most of the major editorial positions, while the women and plate-glassers get stuck on sub-editing desks. < as lemmas |
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