| 单词 | breeching-scholar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreeching-scholar b. attributive as in breeching boy, breeching-scholar, a young scholar still subject to the birch, hence figurative a novice. (Cf. also whipping-boy n.) ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > schoolboy > young or junior petitc1451 petty1571 breeching-scholar1611 lower boy1778 under-boy1843 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Donat The diuells were, as then, but breeching boyes, like Grammar Schoole boyes, but young in experience, but Nouices. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xx. 733/2 How such a breeching-boy as he was, durst attempt so great a wickednes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. i. 18 I am no breeching scholler in the schooles. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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