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单词 bejan
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bejann.

/ˈbiːdʒən/
Forms: 1600s bajon, 1600s–1800s bajan, 1800s bejaune, bejeant, bejan, bigent.
Etymology: < French béjaune novice, freshman ( < bec jaune ‘yellow beak,’ in allusion to young birds. See Littré, s.v. Bec, Béjaune); compare German gelbschnabel.
A freshman at the Scottish universities, where the term was adopted from the University of Paris. (Now obsolete at Edinburgh.) Also attributive.
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greeny1834
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buttery Benjie1854
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yellow-beak1865
fresher1875
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yearling1908
frosh1915
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bejaune, a novice..or yong beginner in, a Trade, or Art. Payer son bejaune, to pay his welcome; a fee exacted by schollers, of such as are newly admitted into their societie.]
1642 R. Baillie Let. 10 May (1841) II. 39 There will be near sixtie Bajouns alreadie.
a1662 T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edinb. (1808) 63 No Bajans conveened all that year.
1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) ii. iii. x. 441 The first year the students [at Edinburgh] who are called Bajans, are taught only Greek.
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. xiv. 31 Up from their mouldy books..had sprung Bigent and Magistrand to try the game.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 270.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer II. 65 His grandmother yielded, and Robert was straightway a Bejan or Yellow-beak.
1884 A. Grant Story Univ. Edinb. I. iii. 144.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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