tuteen.
/tjuːˈtiː/ Originally U.S.
A university student (in relation to his tutor); a pupil of a private tutor.
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1927 Amer. Speech 2 214/1 Tutee, English ‘pupil’. I met this queer coinage in two academic publications.
1937 Life 7 June 58/2 Wolff at work is a two-hour torrent of words covering the high spots of a whole college course. Tutees take hasty notes, try to remember what he says overnight.
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) i. 6 He was feeling more than half tempted to take the letter over to the main hall and post it on the faculty bulletin board, before the arrival of the eleven-o'clock tutee.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places i. 19 His girl tutees suddenly began to dress like prostitutes.
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