schoolien.1
/ˈskuːli/, U.S. /ˈskuli/, Australian English /ˈskuːli/ 1. Australian and English regional (northern). A schoolteacher.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun]
schoolmasterc1225
pedagoguea1387
pedanty1573
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dominiea1625
Khoja1625
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knight of the grammar1692
boy farmer1869
schoolkeeper1871
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schoolie1889
grade teacher1906
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chalk-and-talker1937
sir1955
teach1958
1889 H. Egbert Pretty Cockey 57 The rest addressed him sometimes as ‘Schoolmaster’, sometimes as ‘Schooley’.
1901 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 250/2 That only three children out of a hundred have been absent on an average throughout twelve months will strike the ordinary scheulie..with astonishment.
1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vii. 179 ‘What a lot I've got to teach you!’ said Christopher smiling. ‘Schoolie.’ ‘Well, of course I'm a schoolie. What else could you expect?’
1960 S. H. Courtier Gently dust Corpse xiii. 189 She was away at college, being taught to be a schoolie all that time.
1991 Westside News (Brisbane) 17 Apr. 6/2 These 35 principals are ‘schoolies’, who..got justified pay rises assessed by an independent umpire.
2. Navy slang. An instructor or trainer.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > instructor
field teacher1623
officer instructor1859
schoolie1946
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > officer with specific duty > [noun] > instructor
schoolie1946
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 151 Schoolie, a naval schoolmaster.
1960 Times 29 Mar. 13/7 There was some discussion whether marines and sailors should attend lectures together, joining classes taken by the ship's three schoolies.
1977 Navy News Dec. 12/2 The official announcement says that in meeting the needs of the Navy during the past 20 years the role of instructor officers—the schoolies—has changed significantly.
2007 R. Hewitt & A. Smale Treading Water ii. 62 His writing and spelling skills weren't great. But he didn't like having it pointed by some ‘cock-eyed schoolie’.
3.
a. A school pupil. Later chiefly (Australian): a school leaver who attends schoolies week (schoolies week n. at Compounds).
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun]
scholarOE
schoolchild1595
student1764
schoolie1966
1966 Austral. Women's Weekly 21 Sept. 59/1 Has the patter of not-so-little feet ceased in your living-room, as the schoolies face up to the final term? Are you really glad to see them off to school again?
1973 S. Shepard Tooth of Crime in Performance 1 No. 5. 69/2 I don't believe that shit no more. That stuff is for schoolies.
1985 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 29 June Nor would the average city schoolie expect to find a possum in his/her backpack.
1994 J. Birmingham He died with Felafel in his Hand (1997) vii. 151 One of those parties that came in human waves—bingeing crims, yuppie yobbos, professional crashers,..girly swots, naive schoolies, [etc.].
2003 D. Wondrich Stomp & Swerve 50 Twoscore field-tripping little schoolies..indignantly whispering to each other about how lame their teachers are.
2010 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 Nov. 6 One schoolie was arrested over the weekend and dozens of others were handed warnings for drinking and other minor offences.
b. Australian. In plural. Frequently with capital initial. Short for schoolies week n. at Compounds.
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1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 11 Nov. 8/6 The stories related by friends who attended Schoolies in 1990 were disgusting—vomit-stained re-enactments of tacky, low-budget American movies about sex-crazed teenagers on holiday.
1997 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Sunday Life section) 12 It was my equivalent of schoolies because I couldn't afford to go away.
2010 D. Prokop Leaving Neverland 217 Schoolies came about as a way for young people to come together to celebrate the end of high school.
Compounds
schoolies week n. (also schoolies' week; also with capital initials) Australian the period following graduation, during which school leavers take a holiday to celebrate, often gathering in large numbers at beaches and resorts for raucous parties.
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1985 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 27 Aug. The lecture program had been developed after concern by parents and educators over excesses during ‘schoolies week’.
1996 N. Earls After Jan. 77 It's like Schoolies' Week, and I survived that okay.
2009 A. Bain & E. Gelber Cycling Austral. 263/2 The one time to especially avoid is the end-of-year schoolies week (usually late November), when revved-up school-leavers invade the island for a week of drinking and debauchery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
schoolien.2
/ˈskuːli/, U.S. /ˈskuli/ 1. U.S. A fish of the genus Brevoortia; a menhaden. Now rare.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > brevoortia tyrannus (menhaden)
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mossbunker1792
bony fish1815
pauhagen1833
pogy1840
green-tailed shad1884
schoolie1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Menhaden... This fish has at least 30 different popular names in the United States, the leading ones being mossbunker,..pogie ,..alewife,..schooly, shiner [etc.].
1901 Washington Post 31 Mar. 18/7 Must the epicures of the twentieth century be buncoed by mossbunkers, hardheads, flatbacks, pogies, chebogs, and schoolies in this disgraceful fashion.
2. Angling (chiefly North American and Australian). Any of various relatively small fishes which are typically found in schools or shoals. Cf. school n.2 Compounds.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > shoal > member of
schoolie1953
1953 Washington Post 12 July 2 c/1 School tuna are about due in quantity in Delmarva waters... But the first run of the schoolies evidently passed on up the coast.
1980 Outdoor Life (U.S.) Oct. (Northeast ed.) 122/2 I asked Mann about using the worm on schoolies.
2002 Sport Fishing Sept. 69/1 Fish ranging in size from 40-pound schoolies to full-blown giant bluefin.
2011 Northern Star & Rural Weekly (New S. Wales) (Nexis) 14 Jan. 35 The breakwalls also have their share of bream and schoolies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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