单词 | bejan |
释义 | bejann. A freshman at the Scottish universities, where the term was adopted from the University of Paris. (Now obsolete at Edinburgh.) Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student puny1548 freshman1583 puisne1592 freshwomana1627 bejan1642 nib1655 jib1827 greeny1834 fox1839 freshie1845 rat1850 buttery Benjie1854 pennal1854 yellow-beak1865 fresher1875 yellow-neb1879 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). < n.1642 |
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