Wadhamiten.
/ˈwɒdəmʌɪt/ A member of Wadham College, Oxford.
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1760 J. Woodforde Diary 20 May (1924) I. 14 Hooke, Boteler and myself went to Welch's of Wadham College, where we designed to sup and spend the evening, but our entertainment was thus, one Lobster of a Pound, a half~pennyworth of Bread, and the same of Cheese... N.B. A Wadamite.
1976 A. Powell Infants of Spring xi. 191 ‘But’, added the young Wadhamite, ‘I've heard he's an absolute fish out of water when he's away from the academic world he's accustomed to.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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