单词 | undergraduette |
释义 | undergraduetten. colloquial (now rare). A female undergraduate. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > undergraduate > female undergraduette1919 1919 Observer 23 Nov. 17/4 The audience was chiefly composed of under-graduates and under-graduettes. 1926 Spectator 23 Oct. 677/1 There are too many undergraduettes at Oxford. 1934 W. Gerhardi Resurrection xcv. 355 A professor, a don, an undergraduette in black cotton stockings, a green-grocer's boy—all move on bicycles. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end viii. 123 The subject of the duel was reported in the London Press to be an ‘undergraduette of Somerville’. 1972 J. Potter Going West 70 He ostentatiously walked out arm-in-arm with the prettiest undergraduettes. 1980 Listener 23 Oct. 549/2 In the Oxford of 1939..I remember a red-headed ‘undergraduette’ (as we then rather quaintly would have called her). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1919 |
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