swap

From the verb swap. First attested in 1620.

(Cambridge University slang) A social meal at a restaurant between two university societies, usually involving drinking and banter; commonly associated with fining and pennying; equivalent to a crewdate at Oxford University.


rag week

From rag (“university students society run for charitable fundraising”) + week, possibly from the verb rag (“tease; torment; banter”).

compound

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This week has been the University College Rag Week. The students are given more or less a free hand all the week. They organize a series of revels culminating in a grand procession and collection this afternoon.

1949 April 14, The Texas Outlook, volume 33, number 4, page 4:

The only acting that looks like anything but rag week at a bad university is by Billy Hartman as a private detective.

1982 January 6, B.A. Young, The Financial Times, section 1, page 9:

Worse than that, too, during Rag Week when the drink flowed quickly and the privy seemes too far to stagger.

In truth the gags seldom rise above the level of an undergraduate Rag Week but speed, quickchange wigs and sheer chutzpah from Russell Bentley, pretty blonde Marianne Levy, Joel Brookes and Teddy Lawrence give wicked twists to such as 'Richard and Judaism', a Who Wants to be a Millionaire? contestant whose phone-a-friend is his argumentative Jewish mother, a wondering 'Wandering Jew' and a savage Shylock rehearsal scene.

2002 December 19, John Thaxter, “Tower of Bagel”, in The Stage, page 15:

(chiefly British and Ireland, university slang) An annual event in many universities where students engage in unusual activities to raise money for charity.


BC

→ Chinese: 卑詩／卑诗 (Bēishī)

Calque of Latin ante Christum, popularized with the 1627 publication of De doctrina temporum by French theologian Denis Pétau.


NCAA

w:National Collegiate Athletic Association

(sports) Initialism of National Collegiate Athletic Association.


NAIA

Ninoy Aquino International Airport
w:Ninoy Aquino International Airport

(Philippines) Initialism of Ninoy Aquino International Airport.


beer

Borrowed from German Bär. Cognate to etymology 1.

Door haar gokverslaving zat ze met een enorme beer opgescheept.

Due to her gambling addiction she was saddled with an enormous debt.

Henry zag niet zijn beren op de weg, maar wel bij hem op de stoep.

Henry didn't see his creditors on the road, but he did see them on his doorstep.

(university slang) creditor (one to whom one owes debt)


academy

From French académie, from Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academia and Akademeia; compare academe.

The artists of London had long maintained a private academy for improvement in the art of drawing from living figures

1760–5, Tobias Smollett, The history of England from the revolution in 1688, to the death of George II, published 1805, page 449:

In this year 1633, I became acquainted with Nicholas Fiske, licentiate in physic, who was born in Suffolk, near Framingham* Castle, of very good parentage, who educated him at country schools, until he was fit for the university; but he went not to the academy, studying at home both astrology and physic, which he afterwards practised in Colchester; and there was well acquainted with Dr Gilbert, who wrote "De Magnete".

1776, David Hume, The life of David Hume:

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.


smalls

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You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.

(Oxford University slang, dated) The preliminary examination for a degree.


penny

en-verb

penny (third-person singular simple present pennies, present participle pennying, simple past and past participle pennied)

pennies (present singular third-person)
pennying (participle present)
pennied (participle past)
pennied (past)

From Middle English penny, peny, from Old English peniġ, penniġ, penning (“penny”), from Proto-West Germanic *panning, from Proto-Germanic *panningaz, of uncertain origin (see that page for theories). Doublet of pfennig and fening.

You got pennied! Down it, fresher.

(Oxbridge slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to drop a penny in a person's drink with the expectation that they finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.


big

Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug.
Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.

der

He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board.

2018, Kelly Ann Gonzales, Through an Opaque Window:

She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends.

2019 April 1, Audrey Steinkamp, “Sororities pair new members with "bigs"”, in Yale Daily News:

Some traditions of the chapter include lineages with bigs and littles, receiving of paddles from a big, and a national stroll, Wolsch-Gallia said.

2022 September 27, Shreya Varrier, “Gamma Rho Lambda provides LGBTQIA+ community in greek life”, in Iowa State Daily:

(university slang) An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).


Georgia

From George (male given name) + -ia (place-name suffix).

af

/ˈd͡ʒɔː.d͡ʒə/

/ˈd͡ʒɔɹ.d͡ʒə/

/ˈd͡ʒɔʊ.d͡ʒə/

Alabama · Alaska · Arizona · Arkansas · California · Colorado · Connecticut · Delaware · Florida · Georgia · Hawaii · Idaho · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Kentucky · Louisiana · Maine · Maryland · Massachusetts · Michigan · Minnesota · Mississippi · Missouri · Montana · Nebraska · Nevada · New Hampshire · New Jersey · New Mexico · New York · North Carolina · North Dakota · Ohio · Oklahoma · Oregon · Pennsylvania · Rhode Island · South Carolina · South Dakota · Tennessee · Texas · Utah · Vermont · Virginia · Washington · West Virginia · Wisconsin · Wyoming

American Samoa · Guam · Northern Mariana Islands · Puerto Rico · United States minor outlying islands · United States Virgin Islands


can

/kʰɛːn²²⁻³⁵/

/kʰɛːn²²⁻³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) canteen; restaurant (in a university campus)


DU

University of Denver
w:University of Denver


burro

Back-formation from burrico (“small donkey”), from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”).

der

(Brazil, university slang, dated) crib (a literal translation, usually of a Classical work)


Georgetown

/ˈd͡ʒɔː(ɹ)d͡ʒtaʊn/


pledge

From Middle English plege, from Anglo-Norman plege, from Old French plege (Modern French pleige) from Medieval Latin plevium, plebium, from plebiō (“I pledge”), from Frankish *plehan (“to pledge; to support; to guarantee”). Akin to Old High German pflegan (“to take care of, be accustomed to”), Old Saxon plegan (“to vouch for”), Old English plēon (“to risk, endanger”). More at plight.

peng

delivery of personal property to secure the payment of a debt

(university slang) A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.

schacht

person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a fraternity


UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

University of Kentucky
w:University of Kentucky


gull

Perhaps from an obsolete term gull (“to swallow, guzzle”), from Middle English golen (“to make swallowing motions, gape”).

inh

You'll excuse me, sir, but as you are fresh, take care to avoid the gulls; they fly about here in large flocks, I assure you, and do no little mischief at times." "I never understood that gulls were birds of prey," said I.—"Only in Oxford, sir; and here, I assure you, they bite like hawks, and pick many a poor young gentleman as bare before his three years are expired, as the crows would a dead sheep upon a common. […]"

1825, Bernard Blackmantle, The English Spy:

(obsolete, Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.


impose

en-verb

impose (third-person singular simple present imposes, present participle imposing, simple past and past participle imposed)

imposes (present singular third-person)
imposing (participle present)
imposed (participle past)
imposed (past)
impose (infinitive)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English imposen (“to place, set; to impose (a duty, etc.)”), borrowed from Middle French imposer, and Old French emposer, enposer (“to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”) (modern French imposer), from im-, em- (variants of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + poser (“to place, put”), modelled after:
* Latin impōnere, the present active infinitive of impōnō (“to place or set (something) on; (figurative) to impose (a duty, tax, etc.)”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘on, upon’)) + pōnō (“to place, put; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, *h₂epó (“away; off”) + *tḱey- (“to cultivate; to live; to settle”)); and
* Latin impositus (“established; put upon, imposed”), the perfect passive participle of impōnō: see above.
The noun is derived from the verb.

der

(UK, school or university slang) To subject (a student) to imposition (“a task inflicted as punishment”).


engine

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn³⁵/

/ɛːn⁵⁵ t͡siːn³⁵/

2001 May 23, 小賤, “好慢~~~~”, in talk.rumors (Usenet):

I said I'm studying engineering, don't really get to know girls much

ngo⁵ dou¹ waa⁶ ngo⁵ duk⁶ en¹ zin²
mou⁵ mat¹ sik¹ dou² neoi⁵ zai² lok³

我都話我讀Engine
無乜識到女仔咯

我都话我读Engine
无乜识到女仔咯

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) engineering


wedge

From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.

1873, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University:

(UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.


dead

Pseudo back-formation from English deadline.

呢份功課今晚dead。

呢份功课今晚dead。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) to be due by; to have a deadline of


ball

en-verb

ball (third-person singular simple present balls, present participle balling, simple past and past participle balled)

balls (present singular third-person)
balling (participle present)
balled (participle past)
balled (past)

From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.

der

This highlights the issue of toxic masculinity in fraternities: a pledge only becomes a man, or a brother, by enduring as much abuse as he can and by proving his competence with girls. If he cannot, he is not only "balled" but seen as a "faggot" (this is a term directly from the work).

2018 July 12, “'I Thought Frats Were Like Their Movies, and They Totally Are': A Review of 'Alpha Class'”, in College Media Network:

All of these things are done by pledges in hopes of not getting 'balled' or kicked out.

2019 November 25, Annie Martin, “UCF frat suspended after report of pledges being forced to smoke marijuana, drink 'entire bottles' of alcohol”, in Orlando Sentinel:

(university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)


仙

*僊
仚
屳
㒨
僲
𠑗
𠏡
銑

五仙硬幣

五仙硬币

He is a son born out of wedlock, so when his dad died, he didn't even inherit one cent.

keoi⁵ hai⁶ si¹ sang¹ zi², keoi⁵ lou⁵ dau⁶ sei² go² zan⁶ jat¹ go³ sin¹ dou¹ mou⁵ fan¹ bei² keoi⁵.

佢係私生子，佢老豆死嗰陣一個仙都冇分畀佢。

佢系私生子，佢老豆死嗰阵一个仙都冇分畀佢。

(Cantonese, Southern Min, Malaysian and Singapore Mandarin) cent (Classifier: 個／个 c)


嫂

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) Alternative form of soc


宿

In the oracle bone script, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 人 (“person”) + [Term?] (“bamboo mat”) – a person resting on a mat. Sometimes a house (宀) was added.
Later the pictogram of the bamboo mat became 㐁 or 𠀬, and eventually came to be written 百.
Contrast 寒.
; “To stay overnight; lodge > night; mansion of the zodiac [i.e. the Sun's lodging stations]”

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) Short for 宿舍 (“dormitory”).


摺

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/l-t(y)ap (“fold, layer, pile up, repeat”). Cognate with 疊 (OC *l'ɯːb, “to fold, accumulate”); see there for more (STEDT).

inh

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) unsocialized; uninteracting towards others


university

en-noun

university (countable and uncountable, plural universities)

→ Tokelauan: Iunivehite

From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”).

inh

She's studying mathematics at university.

The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

The most compelling stories of whether university is worth it are examples where a university education lifts the economic standing of a poor or disadvantaged student to a higher socioeconomic position.

2021, Harvey P. Weingarten, “Is Going to University Worth It?”, in Nothing Less than Great: Reforming Canada’s Universities, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y., London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 23:

Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി

yūṇivēḻsiṟṟi


莊

/ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/t͡szʷæ̃³³⁴/

/ʈ͡ʂu̯ɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/t͡szʷæ̃³³⁴/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ʔsraŋ): semantic 艸 + phonetic 壯 (OC *ʔsraŋs).

Han compound

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) student association; student union (Classifier: 支 c)


船

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (船):
* → Japanese: 船(ぜん) (zen); 船(せん) (sen)
* → Korean: 선(船) (seon)
* → Vietnamese: thuyền (船)

→ Manchu: ᠴᡠᠸᠠᠨ (cuwan)

→ Yukjin Korean: 촨 (chwan)

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än³⁵/

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦljon): semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 㕣 (OC *lon).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-lawŋ (“boat”). Compare Burmese လောင်း (laung:, “long and narrow boat”), and Mizo lawng (“boat or ship”).
Sagart (1999) interprets Old Chinese 船 (OC *ɦljon) as a nominal derivate of the verb 沿 (OC *lon, “to go downstream a river”). The Fangyan states that this word was commonly used in western China, but, by Han times, it had completely displaced the earlier 舟 (OC *tjɯw), used in central and eastern China.
Alternatively, the Proto-Sino-Tibetan root could be a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂lu(u)ŋ ~ *d₂l(u)əŋ (“boat”), whence Mon ဂၠုၚ် (klɜ̀ŋ, “canoe, small boat”), perhaps a derivate of Proto-Mon-Khmer *luŋh ~ *luuŋh ~ *ləŋh (“to hollow, excavate, bore”), see Khmer លុង (lung, “to dig a hole”) and Vietnamese trũng (“concave”) (Sidwell, 2006; Schuessler, 2007).

cog

攞船／𫽋船 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― lo² syun⁴ [Jyutping] ― to receive scholarship

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) scholarship


過

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (過):
* → Japanese: 過(か) (ka)
* → Korean: 과(過) (gwa)
* → Vietnamese: quá (過, “too; to exceed”), qua (過, “to cross; through; across”)

→ Proto-Hmong-Mien: *KʷajH (“to cross”)

White Hmong: dhau

→ Proto-Tai: *kwaːᴮ (“to cross over”)

Lao: ກວ່າ (kuā, “than; more than”)

desc

Shan: ၵႂႃႇ (kwàa, “go; work, run (as an engine)”)

Thai: กว่า (gwàa, “than; more than; over; go; overflow; pass”)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kloːl, *kloːls): semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 咼 (OC *kʰʷroːl).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s-ka-j (“to go, to stride”) (STEDT). Related to 跨 (OC *kʰʷraː, *kʰʷraːʔ, *kʰʷraːs, *kʰʷaːs, “to pass over”) and 騎 (OC *ɡral, *ɡrals, “to ride”).

och-l

勁過／劲过 [Cantonese] ― ging³ gwo³ [Jyutping] ― to superpass

過三爆四／过三爆四 [Cantonese] ― gwo³ saam¹ baau³ sei³ [Jyutping] ― to achieve a GPA of 3 or above

(Cantonese, chiefly university slang) to pass


California

en-proper noun

California (countable and uncountable, plural Californias)

Etymology of California
Las sergas de Esplandián

Probably Spanish after California, a Utopian island of the Amazons described in Las sergas de Esplandián, a 16th-century Spanish novel. The name comes from the fictional island's Muslim-allied queen, Calafia, whose name is a play on Arabic خَلِيفَة (ḵalīfa, “caliph”). For more information see: Etymology of California.


con

Clipping of English consultation or English consult.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to consult or to question a student society candidate before the election


psycho

/saːi̯²² kʰɔː⁵⁵/

/saːi̯²² kʰɔː⁵⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) psychology (as a subject)


proctor

Inherited from Middle English procatour, contraction of procuratour; compare proxy. Doublet of procurator.

(Canada, US, Philippines) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.


college

⇒ Bengali: কলেজ (kolej)

→ Finnish: college

⇒ Hindustani:

desc

Hindi: कालिज (kālij), कॉलेज (kŏlej), कालेज (kālej)

Urdu: کالِج (kālij)

→ Russian: ко́лледж (kólledž), колле́дж (kollédž)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: ко̀леџ

Latin script: kòledž

→ Slovene: koledž

→ Ukrainian: ко́ле́дж (kólédž)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Latin lēx
Latin -ō
Latin lēgō
Latin collēga
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin collēgiumbor.
Old French college
Middle French collegebor.
Middle English college
English college
From Middle English college, from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium. Doublet of collegium.

大專

postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees

مَعْهَد

non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university

(education) An academic institution.
(Ireland, Philippines) A university.

Eton College

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.

An academic institution.
A high school or secondary school.

私立高中

in the formal names of private schools: secondary school


college

college (nominative singular)
college'e (nominative plural)
college'u (genitive singular)
college'ów (genitive plural)
college'owi (dative singular)
college'om (dative plural)
college (accusative singular)
college'e (accusative plural)
college'em (instrumental singular)
college'ami (instrumental plural)
college'u (locative singular)
college'ach (locative plural)
college'u (singular vocative)
college'e (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English college. Doublet of kolegium.

ubor

(education) college (specialized division of a university)


Louisiana

From French Louisiane, named for King Louis XIV of France.

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and especially its athletic program, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.


Florida

New York City, Philadelphia, traditional Eastern New England (except for Boston), Ireland

From Spanish florida (“flowery”), often referring to a place's abundance of flowers.
The state's name specifically is a shortening of la Florida (“the flowery one”) or Pascua Florida (“flowery Easter”). It is the oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US.
The village in Orange County, New York was named in the 1760s from Latin flōrida (“flowery”).

A township in Parke County, Indiana, named after a place in New York.

Berkshire County
Berkshire County#English

A town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, perhaps named for Spanish Florida.

Yellow Medicine County
Yellow Medicine County#English

A township in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, named after Florida Creek.


Maine

Gallia Celtica
Maine (disambiguation)
Maine (province)
Maine (state)

From French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name, in turn named after the river with the same name that runs through it. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.


Oxford

Oxford (nominative singular)
Oxfordu (genitive singular)
Oxfordowi (dative singular)
Oxford (accusative singular)
Oxfordem (instrumental singular)
Oxfordzie (locative singular)
Oxfordzie (singular vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English Oxford, from Middle English Oxenford, Oxneford, from Old English Oxnaford.

Oxford (a number of other places in the United States)


knock out

en-verb

knock out (third-person singular simple present knocks out, present participle knocking out, simple past and past participle knocked out)

knocks out (present singular third-person)
knocking out (participle present)
knocked out (participle past)
knocked out (past)

→ Macedonian: нокаут (nokaut)

→ Portuguese: nocaute

→ Russian: нокаут (nokaut)

→ Serbo-Croatian: нокаут

→ Spanish: nocaut

→ Turkish: nakavt

"Hullo!" he said, getting up; "time for me to knock out, or old Copas will be in bed. […]"

1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, page 503:

(obsolete, Oxford University slang) To leave college after hours—after half-past ten at night when the doors have been locked.


baba

pl-noun

baba f (diminutive babka or babcia, augmentative babsko or babisko)

babka (diminutive)
babcia (diminutive)
babsko (augmentative)
babisko (augmentative)
baba (nominative singular)
baby (nominative plural)
baby (genitive singular)
bab (genitive plural)
babie (dative singular)
babom (dative plural)
babę (accusative singular)
baby (accusative plural)
babą (instrumental singular)
babami (instrumental plural)
babie (locative singular)
babach (locative plural)
babo (singular vocative)
baby (plural vocative)

nie miała baba kłopotu, kupiła sobie prosię

(obsolete, university slang, games) leather ball


lioness

From Middle English leonesse, lyonesse, from Old French leonesse, lionesse; equivalent to lion + -ess.

When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]

1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford, page 305:

"Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.

1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, page 271:

(Oxford University slang, obsolete) A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.


killer

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː²¹/

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː³⁵/

/kʰiːu̯⁵⁵ laː²¹/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) professor who is known for often giving students failing grades


March Madness

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From the month of March, during which most of the tournament matches take place. The "madness" part is probably an allusion to the phrase mad as a March hare.

(basketball, US) The NCAA Division I basketball championship tournaments.


Final Four

These two teams have an amazing number of Final Fours between them.

(basketball, US, informal) An appearance in the Final Four.


Oxbridge

On the previous night he had taken the manuscript out of a long neglected chest, containing old shooting jackets, old Oxbridge scribbling books, his old surplice, and battered cap and gown, and other memorials of youth, school, and home.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter III, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

"Of course she is clever," said Mrs. Pope. "Or we shouldn't have sent her to Oxbridge. There she's doing quite well—quite well. Everyone says so. I don't know, of course, if Mr. Magnet will let her finish there."

1912, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Marriage, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited […], →OCLC, book the first (Marjorie Marries), page 152:

In another, he says: “Why has the BBC allowed the format of this programme to treat all other universities in the UK apart from Oxbridge as second class?”

2023 March 26, Matthew Weaver, “BBC rejects charge of elitist Oxbridge bias in University Challenge”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK, education) The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge collectively.


Cambridge

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From Middle English Cantebrigge, Grentebrige, from Old English Grante bryċġ, Granta-briċġ, Grantanbryċġ (“Granta-bridge”). Granta is probably of Celtic origin, identified as Brythonic settlement, Cair Grauth. Doublet of Cam.
By Middle English when the name of the settlement had changed to "Cantebrigge" and eventually "Cambridge", the lower stretches of the River Granta were renamed Cam by back-formation from Cambridge.

He went to Cambridge, you know.

University of Cambridge
w:University of Cambridge


Cambridge

Unadapted borrowing from English Cambridge, from Middle English Cantebrigge, Grentebrige, from Old English Grante bryċġ, Granta-briċġ, Grantanbryċġ.

der

University of Cambridge
w:pl:University of Cambridge


source

/sɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

/sɔː⁵⁵ siː³⁵/

(university slang) source material used for copying or plagiarism


final

→ Japanese: ファイナル (fainaru)

→ Swahili: fainali

From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin fīnālis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from fīnis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”).

(Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.


jam

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to nab; to take without asking


urso

pt-noun

urso m (plural ursos, feminine ursa, feminine plural ursas)

ursos (plural)
ursa (feminine)
ursas (feminine plural)

Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *orssos
Latin ursuslbor.
Portuguese ursoLearned borrowing from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos. Displaced the inherited doublet usso.

etymon

(Portugal, university slang) brilliant student


shark

From Middle English shark (used by Thomas Beckington in 1442 to refer to a kind of fish), of uncertain origin. Most likely from a semantic extension of the German-derived shark (“scoundrel”), see below. The fish was originally called a dogfish or haye in English and Middle English.
alternative theories
Some older dictionaries derived the word from Latin c(h)archarias, c(h)acharus (from Ancient Greek), but admit that "the requisite [Old French] forms intermediate between E. shark and L. carcharus are not found, and it is not certain that the name [shark] was orig. applied to the fish; it may have been first used of a greedy man".
Other older authorities speculated that the word might derive from Yucatec Maya xok (“fish”) (/ʃok/), as John Hawkins brought a specimen from the area where Mayan was spoken to England in the 1560s. However, the 1442 use rules out a New World origin for the word.

shock (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

(UK, university slang) A university student who is not a fresher that has engaged in sexual activity with a fresher; usually habitually and with multiple people.


shark

en-verb

shark (third-person singular simple present sharks, present participle sharking, simple past and past participle sharked)

sharks (present singular third-person)
sharking (participle present)
sharked (participle past)
sharked (past)

(UK, university slang) Of a university student who is not a fresher, to engage in sexual activity with a fresher, or to be at a bar or club with the general intention of engaging in such activity.


public

en-noun

public (countable and uncountable, plural publics)

The adjective and noun are derived from Late Middle English publik, publike (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public or public affairs; (noun) a generally observable place or situation”), from Anglo-Norman public, publik, publique, Middle French public, publique, and Old French public (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public; official; (noun) community or its members collectively; nation, state; audience, spectators collectively”) (modern French public, publique (obsolete)); and from their etymon Latin pūblicus (“of or belonging to the community, people, or state; general, public”), an alteration of poplicus (influenced by pūbēs (“adult men; male population”)), from poplus (“community; the people, public; nation, state”) (later populus; from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”); further origin uncertain, possibly from Etruscan or from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Doublet of people.
The Middle English word displaced native Old English ceorlfolc and folclic.
The verb is derived from the adjective.

yleisö

particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic; (sociology) group of people sharing some common interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other

(US, university slang) At Harvard University: a penalty imposed on a student involving a grade reduction which is communicated to the student's parents or guardian.


uni

I'm going to uni after I leave school.

Turn left when you reach the uni.

(colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) University.


little

en-noun

little (countable and uncountable, plural littles)

From Middle English litel, from Old English lyttel, lȳtel, from Proto-West Germanic *lūtil, from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“tending to stoop, crouched, little”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to bend, bent, small”), equivalent to lout + -le. Cognate with Dutch luttel, regional German lütt and lützel, Saterland Frisian litje, West Frisian lyts, Low German lütt, lüttje. Related also to Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend low”); and perhaps to Old English lytiġ (“deceitful”), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍄𐍃 (liuts, “deceitful”), 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lutjan, “to deceive”); compare also Icelandic lítill (“little”), Faroese lítil, Swedish liten, Danish liden, lille, Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (leitils), which appear to have a different root vowel. More at lout.

der

He was there the night of Cristoph's party. All the littles were assigned to their bigs. Ian and Christoph had rushed the same fraternity. When they became upperclassmen, they both ended up on the board.

2018, Kelly Ann Gonzales, Through an Opaque Window:

She added that the relationship between bigs and littles is "what each pair makes of it," and that a lot of the pairs often get dinner together and become close friends.

2019 April 1, Audrey Steinkamp, “Sororities pair new members with "bigs"”, in Yale Daily News:

Some traditions of the chapter include lineages with bigs and littles, receiving of paddles from a big, and a national stroll, Wolsch-Gallia said.

2022 September 27, Shreya Varrier, “Gamma Rho Lambda provides LGBTQIA+ community in greek life”, in Iowa State Daily:

An adult in a child-like role, or in the more junior of two paired roles.

(countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.


hat

Sranan Tongo: ati

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

cog

I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew.

1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 32, in Paul Clifford:

(Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).


toga

Borrowed from Spanish toga, from Latin toga.

cap and gown; ceremonial gown or robe (worn by a graduate, lawyer, judge, professor etc.)


Minnesota

[ˌmɪnɪˈsoʊɾə]

From Lakota mní šóta (literally “cloudy water”).


term

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang, passive voice) to have one's study be terminated

university slang; passive voice; university slang; passive voice


super

/suːp̚⁵ pʰaː³⁵/

/suːp̚⁵ pʰaː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) supervisor (of a student)


bowl

Bislama: bol

→ Esperanto: bovlo

desctree

→ French: bol
→ Catalan: bol
→ Greek: μπολ (bol)

→ German: Bowle, → Bowl

→ Hungarian: bólé

→ Ido: bolo

→ Irish: bolla

→ Japanese: ボール (bōru)

→ Latvian: bole (probably via German)

→ Korean: 볼 (bol)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bòl

→ Swedish: bål

From Middle English bolle, from Old English bolla, bolle (“bowl, cup, pot, beaker, measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *bollā, from Proto-Germanic *bullǭ (“ball, round vessel, bowl”).
Cognate with North Frisian bol (“bun, bread roll”), Middle Low German bolle, bole (“round object”), Dutch bol (“ball, sphere, scoop, dot”), German Bolle (“bulb”), Danish bolle (“bowl, bread roll”), Icelandic bolli (“cup”). Doublet of boule and pulla.

inh

(American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)


student

pl-noun

student m pers (female equivalent studentka, diminutive studencik or studenciak, augmentative studencina)

studentka (feminine)
studencik (diminutive)
studenciak (diminutive)
studencina (augmentative)
student (nominative singular)
studenci (nominative plural)
studenty (derogatory nominative plural)
studenta (genitive singular)
studentów (genitive plural)
studentowi (dative singular)
studentom (dative plural)
studenta (accusative singular)
studentów (accusative plural)
studentem (instrumental singular)
studentami (instrumental plural)
studencie (locative singular)
studentach (locative plural)
studencie (singular vocative)
studenci (plural vocative)

Borrowed from German Student, ultimately from Latin studēns. First attested in the 16th century.. Compare Kashubian sztudent and Silesian sztudynt.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “student”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(education) student, university student (person who is enrolled at a college or university)


Texas

Borrowed from Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaʔ (“friend, ally”), used to refer to the Caddo nation.


trans

/t͡ʃɹaːns²²/

trans科 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― trans fo¹ [Jyutping]

2021, “無光朔夜裏走過的路”, in 學苑, 二零二一年第一回 [Volume 1, 2021], 《渡》, page 35:

lo⁴ bun² loi⁴ sau¹ duk⁶ tung¹ sik¹ gaau³ juk⁶, ging¹ “trans fo¹ (zik¹ zyun³ wun⁶ zyu² sau¹ fo¹ muk⁶)” hau⁶, gam¹ nin⁴ si⁶ zing³ zing³ hai⁶ jat¹ nin⁴ kap¹ sang¹.

羅本來修讀通識教育，經「trans科（即轉換主修科目）」後，今年是政政系一年級生。

罗本来修读通识教育，经「trans科（即转换主修科目）」后，今年是政政系一年级生。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to transfer


sup

of supremum and of words beginning with super-

(Cambridge University slang) A supervision.

lup sup

etymologically unrelated to any of the above terms


Sodom

Partially from Old English Sodome, Sodoma, partially from Ancient Greek Σόδομα (Sódoma), from the Biblical Hebrew סְדֹם (s'dóm).
(Wadham College): Chosen for the rhyme.

(Oxford University slang, obsolete) Wadham College, Oxford.


bulldog

→ French: bouledogue

→ German: Bulldogge

→ Portuguese: buldogue

From bull + dog, in reference to bullbaiting.

[…] and was confronted by a “bulldog,” a proctor's assistant in charge of discipline, who asked if he was a member of the university since he wasn't wearing a gown, and he was able to say that he wasn't, […]

2019, Thomas Merton, Patrick F. O'Connell, Medieval Cistercian History (page lxxiii)

(UK, Oxford University slang) One of the proctors' officers.


fine

→ Swahili: faini

From Middle English fyn, fyne, from Old French fin, from Medieval Latin fīnis (“a payment in settlement or tax”). Doublet of fin and finis.

der

Fine if you've…

(Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.


yo

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) outgoing; sociable


yo

tlb

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang)


reg

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to register (a course, a programme, an event, etc.)


人大

/ʐən³⁵ tä⁵¹/

/jɐn²¹ taːi̯²²/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tai³⁵/

/ʐən³⁵ tä⁵¹/

/jɐn²¹ taːi̯²²/

/naŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ tai³⁵/

Short for 中國人民大學／中国人民大学 (Zhōngguó Rénmín Dàxué, “Renmin University of China”).


plough

en-verb

plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)

ploughs (present singular third-person)
ploughing (participle present)
ploughed (participle past)
ploughed (past)

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.

der

The good Professor scolded, predicted that they would all be either gulfed or ploughed.

1863, Henry Kingsley, Austin Elliot, page 123:

You see, Miss Dodd, an university examination consists of several items: neglect but one, and Crichton himself would be ploughed; because brilliancy in your other papers is not allowed to count; that is how the most distinguished man of our day got ploughed for Smalls.

I knew one of that lot at Corpus; in fact, we were crammed by the same tutor for "smalls," and both got ploughed.

1895, Roger Pocock, The Rules of the Game:

(UK, university slang, transitive) To fail (a student).


forty minutes of hell

Reportedly coined by Arkansas Razorbacks coach Nolan Richardson.

(idiomatic, basketball) The NCAA strategy of playing a suffocating full-court press and aggressive offense for the entirety of a game.


hall

desc

→ Greek: χολ (chol), χωλ (chol), χωλλ (choll)

→ Japanese: ホール (hōru)

→ Korean: 홀 (hol)

→ Russian: холл (xoll)

Inherited from Middle English halle, from Old English heall (“hall, dwelling, house; palace, temple; law-court”), from Proto-West Germanic *hallu, from Proto-Germanic *hallō (“hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).
Cognate with Scots hall, haw (“hall”), Dutch hal (“hall”), German Halle (“hall”), Norwegian hall (“hall”), Swedish hall (“hall”), Icelandic höll (“palace”), Latin cella (“room, cell”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “house, mansion, hall”). Doublet of cell and cella.

cog

(Oxbridge slang) A meal served and eaten at a college's hall.


champ

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang, of a person) champion; brilliant; superb


brute

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú) (English guru).

der

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-bruit.wav

(archaic, UK, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.


freshman

At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.

When he was but yet a freshman in Cambridge.

1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden:

Sir Alexander: Then he's a graduate.
Sir Davy: Say they trust him not?
Sir Alexander: Then is he held a freshman and a sot,¶ And never shall commence, but being still barr'd¶ Be expuls'd from the master's side to th' twopenny ward,¶ Or else i' th' hole be plac'd.

1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, act 3, scene 3:

As a country, we now enter what the seven freshmen called “unchartered waters”, with an unprecedented political and constitutional crisis looming on the horizon.

2019 September 25, Geoffrey Kabaservice, “Impeach Trump? The United States is now in uncharted waters”, in The Guardian:

Trump may have played a role in swaying some holdouts — calling into a meeting of Republican freshmen the night before, and calling other members ahead of voting.

January 7 2023, Lisa Mascaro, Farnoush Amiri, “McCarthy elected House speaker in rowdy post-midnight vote”, in AP News:

(US, Canada, Philippines) a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body

一年級新生

a person of either sex entering the first year of an institution


frosh

The frosh are really getting on my nerves!

(colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.

(colloquial, plural "froshes") Short for frosh week.


frosh

en-verb

frosh (third-person singular simple present froshes, present participle froshing, simple past and past participle froshed)

froshes (present singular third-person)
froshing (participle present)
froshed (participle past)
froshed (past)

This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.

(transitive, slang) To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.


fresher

From a clipping of freshman + -er (Oxford -er).

(British) A first-year student at a university.


Oregon

Oregon, Washington, California, in casual speech

Columbia River
Oregon
Oregon (disambiguation)

From earlier Ouragon, likely corruption of Spanish orejón (“big ears”), probably describing the banks of the Columbia River, although this remains uncertain. Multiple theories of further origins persist, usually an ultimate derivation from a Native American language:
* A clipping of French Ouariconsint, itself a corruption of Ouisconsin(k), allegedly from Algonquin meskousing (“it lies in red, Wisconsin”).
* Corruption of French ouragan (“hurricane”)
* Borrowing from Abenaki wligen (“good”), cf. Algonquin wauregan (“beautiful”)
* Borrowing from Shoshone ogoe (“river”) + paanangkwa (“west”)
* Borrowing from Chinook Jargon ulakan (“candlefish”)
See Wikipedia article on the toponym Oregon for more information.

أُورِيغُون

northwestern state of the United States of America

Pacific Northwest
Pacific Northwest#English

A state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Capital: Salem. Largest city: Portland.

Several other locations in the United States:

A small city, the county seat of Ogle County, Illinois.

Baltimore County
Baltimore County#English

An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.

A town and village in Dane County, Wisconsin.


formal

en-noun

formal (countable and uncountable, plural formals)

From Middle English formel, borrowed from Old French formel, from Latin fōrmālis, from fōrma (“form”); equivalent to form + -al.

(Oxbridge slang) Ellipsis of formal hall..


tut

Alternative form: tute

2002, Little Penny, “Looking for sites, tuts, videos to learn html (newbie)”, in alt.html (Usenet):

(Internet slang and Oxford University slang) A tutorial.


BCS

best-case scenario
best-case scenario#English

Bowl Championship Series
w:Bowl Championship Series

(American football, historical) Initialism of Bowl Championship Series. Replaced after the 2013 season by the College Football Playoff.

Bowl Championship Series

British Computer Society
w:British Computer Society

(linguistics) Initialism of Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian treated commonly (Serbo-Croatian)

Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur#English

Abbreviation of Baja California Sur, a state of Mexico.


Howard

en-proper noun

Howard (countable and uncountable, plural Howards)

Medieval personal name from Middle English Howard, Howarde, from Old Norse Hávarðr, from hár (“high”) + varðr (“guard”). In some cases a variant of Heward, from Old French Huard.


go down

en-verb

go down (third-person singular simple present goes down, present participle going down, simple past went down, past participle gone down)

goes down (present singular third-person)
going down (participle present)
went down (past)
gone down (participle past)

suhtautua (receiving person or party as subject, received thing in illative)

Following the death of her mother, she went down from Cambridge for a few days so as to attend the funeral.

(intransitive, Oxbridge slang, dated) To physically leave one's university, either permanently or in some other non-transient sense (such as following the end of term).


MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
w:Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Initialism of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Manukau Institute of Technology
w:Manukau Institute of Technology

Initialism of Manukau Institute of Technology.


pluck

pluck (third-person singular simple present plucks, present participle plucking, simple past and past participle plucked or (obsolete) pluckt)

plucks (present singular third-person)
plucking (participle present)
plucked (participle past)
plucked (past)
pluckt (obsolete participle past)
pluckt (obsolete past)

From Middle English plucken, plukken, plockien, from Old English pluccian, ploccian (“to pluck, pull away, tear”), also Old English plyċċan ("to pluck, pull, snatch; pluck with desire"), from Proto-West Germanic *plukkōn, from Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, *plukkijaną (“to pluck”), of uncertain and disputed origin.
Perhaps related to Old English pullian (“to pull, draw; pluck off; snatch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian plukje (“to pluck”), West Frisian plôkje (“to pick, pluck”), Dutch plukken (“to pluck”), Limburgish plógte (“to pluck”), Low German plukken (“to pluck”), German pflücken (“to pluck, pick”), Danish and Norwegian plukke (“to pick”), Swedish plocka (“to pick, pluck, cull”), Icelandic plokka, plukka (“to pluck, pull”). More at pull.
An alternative etymology suggests Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, *plukkijaną may have been borrowed from an assumed Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre, a derivative of Latin pilāre (“deprive of hair, make bald, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). The Oxford English Dictionary, however, finds difficulties with this and cites gaps in historical evidence.
The noun sense of "heart, liver, and lights of an animal" comes from it being plucked out of the carcass after the animal is killed; the sense of "fortitude, boldness" derives from this meaning, originally being a boxing slang denoting a prize-ring, with semantic development from "heart", the symbol of courage, to "fortitude, boldness".

cog

For arguing that a man will be plucked take the Topics following: for among men likely to be plucked are these for the most part. He that hath no friends, he that hath many friends; the first because he hath none to put him in the right way; the second, because he hath many to draw him therefrom.

1835, Scriblerus Redivivus [pseudonym; Edward Caswall], “Topics Concerning Pluck”, in A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: J. Vincent, →OCLC, page 34:

He went to college, and he got— plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law […]

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

Let us hide our heads, and shut up the page. The lists came out; and a dreadful rumour rushed through the university, that Pendennis of Boniface was plucked.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XX, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

He had been a medical student, and got plucked, his foes declared, in his examination.

1850, [Charles Kingsley], Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

"Well, the gooseberry pie is really too deep for me: but 'ploughed' is the new Oxfordish for 'plucked.' O mamma, have you forgotten that? 'Plucked' was vulgar, so now they are 'ploughed.' 'For smalls; but I hope I shall not be, to vex you and Puss.'"

I trust that I have never plucked a candidate in the Schools without giving him every opportunity of setting himself right.

1884 May 8, William Stubbs, “XVII. A Last Statutory Public Lecture”, in Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Medieval and Modern History and Kindred Subjects, published 1887, page 440:

(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.


Kansas

Kansases (plural)
Kan. (abbreviation)
Kans. (abbreviation)
Ks. (abbreviation)

From a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa; related to Arkansas, which see for more information.


grade

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) grade


rector

Inherited from Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor.

(Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.

A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.

(Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.


SEC

Southeastern Conference
w:Southeastern Conference

(US, college, sports) Abbreviation of Southeastern Conference, a college athletics conference


Sidney

en-proper noun

Sidney (countable and uncountable, plural Sidneys)

English surname, from several placenames in England, from Old English sīdan, dative of sīd (“spacious, wide”) + īeġ (“island”).

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
w:Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

(Cambridge University slang) Clipping of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.


North Dakota

/ˈnɔɹθ dəˈkoʊ.tə/

The state was formed from northern portion of the former Dakota Territory.


rush

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

раш

video games: act of running at another player with large swarm of weak units — see also zerg

rush week

The trend burst through last week during sorority rush at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, but it continues today in the form of parody videos, deep dives on the status of various recruits and rush videos from women at other colleges across the country who are just starting the process themselves.

2021 August 17, Allie Jones, “#BamaRush, Explained”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

[…]daily “OOTDs” (outfits of the day), rush recap videos from freshly tanned and coiffed prospective new members (PNMs), and reactions to 18-year-old girls either elated or devastated by the high-stakes game of likability that is rush.

2023 May 24, Adrian Horton, “‘Competitive femininity’: inside the wild and secretive world of sororities”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(university slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

At the end of rush, the fraternities vote on who they want to extend invitations to join, and the rushes can then make their selection from the bids they get. Some rushes get bids from multiple fraternities, while others do not get bids from any.

2011 September 15, Abe Gutierrez, “To Rush Or Not To Rush: A Crash Course From A Brother Who Likes It”, in NYU Local:

After a few rounds of these competitions, the rushes that survive to the end get a "bid." Again, kind of like an auction. They don’t come in nice envelopes like sororities, though. Usually what happens is that they put the rushes in a room individually and tell them they didn’t get the bid, to see how sad they get. If they get really sad, the fraternity brothers come to the room and congratulate them on being accepted to the fraternity. Then, the rushes become pledges.

2017 February 8, Youngweon Lee, “The Fraternity Rush Process As Told By Someone Who Knows Nothing About The Fraternity Rush Process”, in Bwog:

(university slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.

(US, dated, university slang) A perfect recitation.


rush

en-verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

rushes (present singular third-person)
rushing (participle present)
rushed (participle past)
rushed (past)

(transitive or intransitive, university slang) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.


Nebraska

Probably from archaic Chiwere Ñí Brásge, pronounced [ˌɲĩˈbɾaskɛ] (contemporary Chiwere Ñí Bráhge), or the Omaha-Ponca Ní Btháska, pronounced [ˌnĩˈbˡðaska], both meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state.

University of Nebraska–Lincoln
w:University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Ellipsis of University of Nebraska–Lincoln.


Utah

Borrowed from Spanish yuta, from Ute entaw or yuta (“diggers of the mountain tops”).


Maryland

/ˈmɛəɹɪlənd/

/ˈmɛəɹɪlænd/

/ˈmɛəɹɪlənd/

From Mary + -land. Named after Henrietta Maria of France, the wife of Charles I of England.


Wisconsin

Borrowed from French Ouisconsin, itself borrowed from an uncertain Native American language. Theories include:
* Miami meeskohsinki or Algonquin meskousing, both meaning "it lies red", the name given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking American Indian groups living in the region at the time of European contact. "Meskousing" is known from maps drawn by the French from the 1670s onwards, it is believed subsequent transcribers mistook the stylized cursive "M" for "OU".
* Menominee wēskōhsek (“a good place”), from Wēskōhsek Sēpēw ("the river where it is good to live")
* An Ojibwe term, suggestions include miskwasiniig (“red stones”), referring to the red sandstone of the dells of the Wisconsin River; and wiishihkaanhs (“little lodge”), referring to the dwellings of the abundant beavers and muskrats.
A researcher for the State of Wisconsin Historical Society concluded in frustration, "I have not found two Indians to agree on the meaning of this word."


Idaho

Colorado Territory
Columbia River
New-York Tribune
Oxford English Dictionary

Uncertain; possibly from Plains Apache ídaahȩ́ (“Comanche”), though the Oxford English Dictionary states that the development of the state’s name from that word remains undocumented. The name Idaho was said to have been considered around 1860 for what was eventually called the Colorado Territory (now the state of Colorado) in 1861, and in 1863 was given to Idaho County (now part of Idaho); the county was named after a steamship launched on the Columbia River in 1860.
The eccentric political lobbyist George Maurice Willing, Jr. (c. 1829 – 1874) claimed to have coined the name after a girl named Ida, though saying it was a Shoshoni term meaning “gem of the mountains” (no such term exists), but evidence suggests that there was use of the name in Colorado pre-dating Willing’s arrival in the West in 1859.
The common noun (“type of potato”) is derived from the name of the state.


Iowa

From French Aiouez/Ayoés, an early transliteration of the name for the Iowa tribe, from Dakota ayúxba (“sleepy ones”).

Calcasieu Parish
Calcasieu Parish#English


Iowa

One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.


Illinois

From a French adaptation of an Algonquian (perhaps Ojibwe) name derived from Miami ilenweewa (“he speaks the regular way”).

der

Another interesting Illinois word is the name of the celebrated chief, which the French made Chachagouache.

1917, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, page 91:

PISTAKEE LAKE (Lake) Part of the Chain of Lakes, Pistakee is an Illinois word taken from pestekouy, meaning "buffalo"[.]

2004, Sandy Nestor, Indian Placenames in America, volume 1, page 61:

These words are believed to have come from the Illinois word "irenweewa," which meant "he speaks in the ordinary way."

2005, Jennifer Lee, The Illinois Confederacy of Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, ..., page 5:

Another Illinois word describing physical detention, kikiȣnakiȣi, meant “slave” in the seventeenth century, but in modern usage the root has softened into a meaning that suggests being detained, held up, or merely running late.

2013, Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries, page 56:

The Algonquian language spoken by these tribes; the Miami-Illinois language.

A river in Oregon, United States that flows from the southwestern corner of the state into the Rogue River.

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.


Alabama

From Alabama Albaamaha, the name of a people native to the area.


puny

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-puny.wav

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pós-ti
Proto-Italic *posti
Latin poste
Latin post
Proto-Indo-European *íh₂
Latin ea
Latin posteā
Vulgar Latin *postius
Old French puis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Old French né
Old French puisné
Middle French puisnébor.
English puisne
English puny
 PIE word
 *pós
A respelling of puisne, from Anglo-Norman puisné (“later, more recent; junior; weakly”) [and other forms] and Middle French puisné (“born after (a specified person); younger, youngest; one who is born after (a specified person)”) (modern French puîné (“cadet (born after a sibling); a cadet (someone born after a sibling)”)), from puis (“after; since”) + né (“born”). Puis is derived from Old French pois (“after; since”), from Vulgar Latin *postius (“afterward”), from Latin posteā (“afterwards; hereafter; thereafter; next, then”), from post (“after; since”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pós (“afterwards”)) + ea (“these (things)”); and né from Latin nātus (“born”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”).

der

[T]he whole companye or most parte of the Studentꝭ [Studentis] of the same house mette toogether to beginne their Christmas, of wᶜʰ som̃e came to see sports […] others to make sporte wᵗʰall of this last sorte were they whome they call Fresh-menn Punies of the first yeare, who are by no meanes admitted to be agent's or behoulders of those sports, before themselues haue biñe patient perfourmers of them.

c. 1610, “[The Election of the Prince]”, in Frederick S[amuel] Boas, editor, The Christmas Prince (The Malone Society Reprints; 47b), London: Printed for the Malone Society by Frederick Hall M.A. at the Oxford University Press, published 1923 (indicated as 1922), →OCLC, page 3, lines 9–12 and 14–18:

(university slang, law) A new student at a school, university, the Inns of Court, etc.; a junior.


dweeb

From 1968 US college slang, probably related to feeb.
The 1980s backronym Dim-Witted Eastern-Educated Boor derives from apparent social and attitudinal differences between West Coast and East Coast US, and describes a stereotypical Ivy League graduate from Harvard, Yale, etc.
Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman feblebor.
Middle English feble
English feeble
English mind
English -ed
English minded
English feeble-minded
English feebinflu.
English dweeb

etymon

I may be dumb, but I'm not a dweeb.

1994, Dexter Holland (lyrics and music), “Self Esteem”, in Smash, performed by The Offspring:

There never is a Keanu but a dweeb looking at me.

1996, Richard Stannard, Matt Rowe (lyrics and music), “If U Can't Dance”, in Spice, performed by Spice Girls:

No way, man, the biggest dweeb of them all with . . . Marilyn!

2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women”, in The New Yorker:

(US, dated, originally university slang, now general slang, derogatory) A boring, studious, or socially inept person.


cred

唔夠cred畢業／唔够cred毕业 [Cantonese] ― m⁴ gau³ kwet¹ bat¹ jip⁶ [Jyutping] ― not enough credits for graduation

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) credit


institute

From French institut, from Middle French, from Latin īnstitūtum.

Substitution is the nomination of substituted heirs, who take place, failing the institute.

1681, Viscount Stair, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland:

(law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.


Carolina

en-proper noun

Carolina (countable and uncountable, plural Carolinas)

Latin: carolinianus (New Latin)

Latin: carolinensis (New Latin)

From Latin Carolus (“Charles”) + -ina (feminine diminutive suffix).
The U.S. states are named for Charles I of England.

af

(uncountable) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


Columbia

From Columbus + -ia, the Latinized name of the European explorer, Christopher Columbus. Piecewise doublet of Colombia.


khâgne

Pseudo-Greek modification of cagneux (“knock-kneed”), c. 1900.

(France, university slang) the second year course, preceded by hypokhâgne, of a two-year academic cycle in France (called Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Humanities section) whose aim is to prepare students for the entrance competition to the École normale supérieure in Paris


wooden spoon

We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.

1843, Thomas Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution:

(Cambridge University slang, dated) The last junior optime who takes a university degree.

(US, university slang, dated) The lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies.


sig

Sig Chi; Kappa Sig; Sig Nu

Outright banning fraternities, however, is a tough move for a university president to make. Greek alums tend to be big donors. [Phil] Hanlon has shied away from making his reform all Greek life, no doubt to avoid the ire of deep-pocketed former Sig Chis.

2014 April 17, Allie Jones, “After Years of Bad Press, the Great Fraternity Crackdown Is Here”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

Here are 6 of the most cartoonishly sexist, aggressive, and straight-up nuts fraternity and sorority email chains ever released to the public. Let them be a warning to young Kappa Sigs everywhere.

2014 May 29, Prachi Gupta, “Your fraternity email chain will come back to haunt you”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-12-13:

My time at Sig Nu was quite brief, unfortunately, so I'll do my best with the data I gathered.

2022 October 6, Eliza Josephson, “POV: You're dancing at a Yale Frat, or not”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 2022-10-13:

(university slang) Sigma (in the names of Greek-letter organizations).


torpid

Coordinate term: slogger

In our first year I had seen him coming away from Blackwell's clutching a great textbook of chemistry with an air of anticipatory delight, and also on the river as cox of one of the Lincoln torpids.

1978, R. V. Jones, chapter 4, in Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945, London: Hamish Hamilton, page 37:

(UK, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.


min

A min

(Hong Kong Cantonese, school slang, university slang) minus (in an academic grade)

school slang; university slang; school slang; university slang


rusticate

en-verb

rusticate (third-person singular simple present rusticates, present participle rusticating, simple past and past participle rusticated)

rusticates (present singular third-person)
rusticating (participle present)
rusticated (participle past)
rusticated (past)

Borrowed from Latin rūsticor (“live in the countryside”), originally in the same sense. First attested in the mid-17th century. By surface analysis, rustic + -ate.

bor+

The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.

I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.

Pen looked at his early acquaintance,—who had been plucked, who had been rusticated, who had only, after repeated failures, learned to read and write correctly, and who, in spite of all these drawbacks, had attained the honour of a degree.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXI, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

"You don't think he'll rusticate us, or any thing of that sort?" said Tom, who had felt horrible twinges at the captain's picture of the effects of rustication on ordinary mortals.

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Captain’s Notions”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 192:

(transitive, intransitive, Oxbridge, Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.

vyloučit ze studií

suspend or expel from a college or university


Charlotte

From French Charlotte in the 17th century, female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz.
The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744 - 1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.

coin

University of North Carolina at Charlotte.


Miami

Miami
Miami (disambiguation)
en:Lake Okeechobee
en:Mayaimi
en:Miami River (Florida)

From Mayaimi, one of only ten words recorded from the language of the now-extinct Mayaimi people, meaning "big water", referring to the large lake on whose shores they lived, alternately called Lake Miami, Lake Mayimi, Lake Maymi, Lake Maimi; now called Lake Okeechobee. The Florida city is named for the Miami River. The river is named for its source, Lake Miami.

Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County#English

A city, the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Ellipsis of Miami River.; A river in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a river flowing past the city of Miami, Dade.


Miami

From Miami Myaamia, the endonym for the tribe in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language.


gulf

From Middle English gulf, goulf, golf, from Old French golf, from Italian golfo, from Late Latin colfos, from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom, gulf”), of obscure origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve, arch”).

der

Some ten or fifteen men just on the line, not enough to be plucked or good enough to be placed, are put into the "gulf," as it is popularly called (the Examiners' phrase is "Degrees allowed"), and have their degrees given to them but are not printed in the calendar, nor were they at this time allowed to try for the Classical Tripos.

1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University, page 205:

(Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.


gulf

en-verb

gulf (third-person singular simple present gulfs, present participle gulfing, simple past and past participle gulfed)

gulfs (present singular third-person)
gulfing (participle present)
gulfed (participle past)
gulfed (past)

The mention of gulfed and plucked men brings me back to myself.

1852, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University, pages 228–229:

The good Professor scolded, predicted that they would all be either gulfed or ploughed.

1863, Henry Kingsley, Austin Elliot, page 123:

Everyone who knows the Senate House may anticipate the result. When the Tripos of 1822 made its appearance his name did not grace the list. In short, to use the expressive vocabulary of the university, Macaulay was gulfed:—a mishap which disabled him from contending for the Chancellor's medals, then the crowning trophies of a classical career.

1876, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, The life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, volume 1, page 83:

(Oxbridge slang, transitive) To award a degree to somebody who has only just passed sufficiently.


tab

Clipping of Cantab, from Cantabrigian, from Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”).

You should have been there---it was a good race. Just to clarify matters for the hard of understanding, the tabs led for about 1500m before turning to shrapnel, and Oxford eventually won by 3/4 length.

1995 January 20, Paul Thomas, “Re: >Re: Those 'orrible Tabs”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):

Before Rachel gets in with a stab at the Tabs' coxing efforts, may I say that my experience of coxes on the Isis is somewhat similar.

1995 February 7, "Laser Cartridge" [username], “Re: Cambridge News, again.”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):

Plus, there's always been a healthy rivalry between the tabs and us, but I'm sure this has nothing to do with it ;-)

1998 January 17, whitey [username], “Re: Tab bashing (was University Challenge - Its pish)”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.misc (Usenet):

I hope the Tabs get beaten! :-) I support Oxford for no real reason but they have a bad habit of losing to Cambridge recently.

2002 March 27, The Guv'nor [username], “Re: My target this week was...”, in uk.rec.bodybuilding (Usenet):

I have nothing against the girl (other than the fact she's a tab!), but it does strike me as a little daft!!

2002 March 29, Caroline Smith, “Re: Lifejackets thread returns... [was Re: Boat Race]”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):

Anybody know who won? ¶ Or should that be, how much did the Tabs win by? ;-)

2006 March 30, JY [username], “Veterans Boat Race (that's Oxford, England vs Cambridge, England)”, in rec.sport.rowing (Usenet):

(Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.


sem

終於完sem喇。

终于完sem喇。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) semester (Classifier: 個／个 c)


кит

ru-noun+

кит • (kit) m anim (genitive ки́та, nominative plural ки́ты, genitive plural ки́тов)

kit (romanization)
ки́та (genitive)
ки́ты (nominative plural)
ки́тов (genitive plural)
ки́т (nominative singular)
ки́ты (nominative plural)
ки́та (genitive singular)
ки́тов (genitive plural)
ки́ту (dative singular)
ки́там (dative plural)
ки́та (accusative singular)
ки́тов (accusative plural)
ки́том (instrumental singular)
ки́тами (instrumental plural)
ки́те (prepositional singular)
ки́тах (plural prepositional)

Abbreviation of Китай (Kitaj) or китаец (kitajec).


重大

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tä⁵¹/

/t͡sʊŋ²² taːi̯²²/

/t͡sʰuŋ⁵⁵ tʰai̯⁵⁵/

/tiɔŋ³³⁻²¹ tai³³/

/tiɔŋ²²⁻²¹ tai²²/

/tiɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ tai³³/

/tiɔŋ²²⁻²¹ tua²²/

/ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ tä⁵¹/

/t͡sʊŋ²² taːi̯²²/

/t͡sʰuŋ⁵⁵ tʰai̯⁵⁵/

/tiɔŋ³³⁻²¹ tai³³/

/tiɔŋ²²⁻²¹ tai²²/

/tiɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ tai³³/

/tiɔŋ²²⁻²¹ tua²²/

/ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ tä⁵¹/

/ʈ͡ʂʰʊŋ³⁵ tä⁵¹/

重慶大學 w:zh:重慶大學


Duke

en-proper noun

Duke (countable and uncountable, plural Dukes)

(informal) Ellipsis of Duke University, a private university in Durham, North Carolina, USA.


stat

Clipping of English statistics, reinforced by English stat.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) statistics (mathematical science)


House

House (countable and uncountable, plural Houses)

* As an English surname, from the noun house.
* Also as an English surname, variant of Howes.
* Also as a topographic English surname, from a derivative of Old English hyse (“place overgrown with water plants”), from hos (“bramble, thorn, sprout”). This may have also made its way into Hose, Huss.
* As a German surname, calqued from the surname Haus.

der

(Oxford University slang, dated) Christ Church, Oxford.


Brown

en-prop

Brown (countable and uncountable, plural Browns)

From Middle English Broun, originally a nickname for someone with brown hair or a dark complexion. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization and translation of German Braun. Doublet of Bruno and Braun.

بْرَاوْن

transliterations of the English name "Brown"

de Bruyn

surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion


Mason

George Mason University
w:en:George Mason University

(informal) Ellipsis of George Mason University..


Sweet Sixteen

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Sweet Sixteen.wav

The new coach has just led the Nimrods to their first Sweet Sixteen.

(basketball, US, informal) An appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.


Smith

en-proper noun

Smith (countable and uncountable, plural Smiths)

⇒ Translingual: smithi, smithii

From smith or Middle English Smith (“a surname”), alternative form of Smyth, itself from smyth (“smith”). Doublet of Schmidt, Smid, and Smit.

Nallbani

surnames derived from the equivalents of “smith”

Smith College (a women's college in Massachusetts, U.S.)


M

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) to nab; to take without asking


O

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) orientation camp


UC

Coordinate term: CSU

“Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S. Bellows, UC Riverside assistant entomologist. They include four acaricides (Morestan, Kelthane, Pictran, Vendex), four thripsicides (Cygon, Carzol, Orthene, Sabadilla), and four scalicides (Parathion, Supracide, Lorsban, Sevin).

1983 May 26, “Pesticide residue effects under study”, in The Californian, volume 25, number 16, Temecula, Calif., page A-11:

Initialism of University of California. A university system in California

University of California
w:University of California

(US)
Initialism of University of Cincinnati.

University of Cincinnati
w:University of Cincinnati

Initialism of University of the Cordilleras.

University of the Cordilleras
w:University of the Cordilleras

(Philippines)
Initialism of University of Cebu.

University of Canberra
w:University of Canberra

(Australia) Initialism of University of Canberra.


walk-on

A student athlete who wants to try out for a college sports or athletic team without the benefit of a scholarship or having been recruited.


chem

en-noun

chem (countable and uncountable, plural chems)

It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.

2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian:

(uncountable, university slang, often capitalized) Clipping of chemistry (“branch of natural science”); usually referring to the subject or the department.


университет

ru-noun+

университе́т

университе́тский

университе́т • (universitét) m inan (genitive университе́та, nominative plural университе́ты, genitive plural университе́тов, relational adjective университе́тский)

университе́т (canonical)
universitét (romanization)
университе́та (genitive)
университе́ты (nominative plural)
университе́тов (genitive plural)
университе́тский (adjective relational)
университе́т (nominative singular)
университе́ты (nominative plural)
университе́та (genitive singular)
университе́тов (genitive plural)
университе́ту (dative singular)
университе́там (dative plural)
университе́т (accusative singular)
университе́ты (accusative plural)
университе́том (instrumental singular)
университе́тами (instrumental plural)
университе́те (prepositional singular)
университе́тах (plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani: universitet

→ Ingrian: universitetta

→ Kazakh: университет (universitet)

→ Lithuanian: universitetas

→ Udmurt: университет (uńiverśiťet)

desc

ئۇنىۋېرسىتېت

→ Uyghur: ئۇنىۋېرسىتېت (uniwërsitët)

[ʊnʲɪvʲɪrsʲɪˈtʲet]

Ru-университет.ogg

Borrowed from German Universität, from Latin universitas.

университе́тъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

ru:университет


soc

Are you part of any socs this year?

(UK, university slang) A society (circle, club, interest group).


soc

heoi³ dou³ jat⁶ fu¹, jin⁶ coeng⁴ jau⁵ ji⁶ sap⁶ gei² jan⁴ kei⁵ hai² dou⁶, cing¹ jat¹ sik¹ ge³ sou² ti¹, baai² ming⁴ hai⁶ m⁴ zi¹ me¹ zong¹ saan³ wui⁵ waak⁶ ze² saan³ wut⁶ dung⁶.

去到逸夫，現場有二十幾人企喺度，清一色嘅Soc Tee，擺明係唔知咩莊散會或者散活動。

去到逸夫，现场有二十几人企喺度，清一色嘅Soc Tee，摆明系唔知咩庄散会或者散活动。

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) society


UW

University of Washington
w:University of Washington


freshers' week

(British) The week before the academic aspects of a university start, when students may socialize and undergo induction.


Queens

(Oxford University slang) Misspelling of Queen's, referring to the Queen's College, Oxford.

(Cambridge University slang) Misspelling of Queens', referring to Queens' College, Cambridge.


post mortem

From Latin post (“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors (“death”).

(British, university slang, obsolete) At Cambridge, a second examination for those who were "plucked" or failed in the first.


bop

en-noun

bop (countable and uncountable, plural bops)

Theatres; Music House used for bands; May Ball; very popular weekly bops in JCR and MCR; library (57,000 books); 40 networked PCs, 24-hrs.

2005, Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University, page 472:

At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.

2012, Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, page 120:

(countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.


CIS

Clark International Speedway
w:Clark International Speedway

(Philippines, motor racing) Initialism of Clark International Speedway.


хвост

ru-noun+

хвост • (xvost) m inan (genitive хвоста́, nominative plural хвосты́, genitive plural хвосто́в, relational adjective хвостово́й, diminutive хво́стик)

xvost (romanization)
хвоста́ (genitive)
хвосты́ (nominative plural)
хвосто́в (genitive plural)
хвостово́й (adjective relational)
хво́стик (diminutive)
хво́ст (nominative singular)
хвосты́ (nominative plural)
хвоста́ (genitive singular)
хвосто́в (genitive plural)
хвосту́ (dative singular)
хвоста́м (dative plural)
хво́ст (accusative singular)
хвосты́ (accusative plural)
хвосто́м (instrumental singular)
хвоста́ми (instrumental plural)
хвосте́ (prepositional singular)
хвоста́х (plural prepositional)

→ Esperanto: vosto

(university slang) academic arrears, backlog


tutor

/tʰiːu̯²² tʰɔː⁵⁵/

/tʰiːu̯²² tʰɔː⁵⁵/

上tutor [Cantonese] ― soeng⁵ tiu⁶ to¹ [Jyutping] ― to attend tutorial class

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) tutorial


parti

/pʰaː⁵⁵ tʰiː³⁵/

/pʰaː⁵⁵ tʰiː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) participant (of an activity)


parti

/pʰaː⁵⁵ tʰiː³⁵/

/pʰaː⁵⁵ tʰiː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) participation marks of a course


grouchy

en-adj

grouchy (comparative grouchier, superlative grouchiest)

grouchier (comparative)
grouchiest (superlative)

US 1895. From grouch + -y. Originally US college student slang.

His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.

Not that young Pat had a nasty temper, or was grouchy as his father had feared.

1911, Jack London, chapter III, in The Abysmal Brute:

He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXI, in Babbitt:

In Berlin I once heard Susie Clemens—ill-fated, talented girl, who died so young—say to her father: "Grouchy again! They do say that you can be funny when company is around—too bad that you don't consider Henry Fisher company."

1922, Henry William Fischer, “Author's Preface”, in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field:

(originally university slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.

knorrig

irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain


kolo

kolo (nominative singular)
kola (nominative plural)
kola (genitive singular)
koli (genitive plural)
kolu (dative singular)
kolom (dative plural)
kolo (accusative singular)
kola (accusative plural)
kolem (instrumental singular)
kolami (instrumental plural)
kolu (locative singular)
kolach (locative plural)
kolo (singular vocative)
kola (plural vocative)

(education, university slang) midterm exam conducted mainly by a university


let in

en-verb

let in (third-person singular simple present lets in, present participle letting in, simple past and past participle let in)

lets in (present singular third-person)
letting in (participle present)
let in (participle past)
let in (past)

He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before "letting in" with any of them.

1859, Thomas Hughes, chapter 1, in Tom Brown at Oxford:

(transitive, Oxford University slang) To associate with.


república

→ Tetum: repúblika

Learned borrowing from Latin rēspūblica, from rēs pūblica (“republic”, literally “[the] public thing”), from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”).

(university slang) rented house or apartment where various students live together


civis

civis (nominative singular)
civikset (nominative plural)
civis (accusative nominative singular)
civikset (accusative nominative plural)
civiksen (accusative genitive singular)
civikset (accusative genitive plural)
civiksen (genitive singular)
civisten (genitive plural)
civiksien (genitive plural)
civistä (partitive singular)
civiksiä (partitive plural)
civiksessä (inessive singular)
civiksissä (inessive plural)
civiksestä (elative singular)
civiksistä (elative plural)
civikseen (illative singular)
civiksiin (illative plural)
civiksellä (adessive singular)
civiksillä (adessive plural)
civikseltä (ablative singular)
civiksiltä (ablative plural)
civikselle (allative singular)
civiksille (allative plural)
civiksenä (essive singular)
civiksinä (essive plural)
civikseksi (singular translative)
civiksiksi (plural translative)
civiksettä (abessive singular)
civiksittä (abessive plural)
civiksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
civikseni (nominative singular)
civikseni (nominative plural)
civikseni (accusative nominative singular)
civikseni (accusative nominative plural)
civikseni (accusative genitive singular)
civikseni (accusative genitive plural)
civikseni (genitive singular)
civisteni (genitive plural)
civiksieni (genitive plural)
civistäni (partitive singular)
civiksiäni (partitive plural)
civiksessäni (inessive singular)
civiksissäni (inessive plural)
civiksestäni (elative singular)
civiksistäni (elative plural)
civikseeni (illative singular)
civiksiini (illative plural)
civikselläni (adessive singular)
civiksilläni (adessive plural)
civikseltäni (ablative singular)
civiksiltäni (ablative plural)
civikselleni (allative singular)
civiksilleni (allative plural)
civiksenäni (essive singular)
civiksinäni (essive plural)
civiksekseni (singular translative)
civiksikseni (plural translative)
civiksettäni (abessive singular)
civiksittäni (abessive plural)
civiksineni (comitative plural)
civiksesi (nominative singular)
civiksesi (nominative plural)
civiksesi (accusative nominative singular)
civiksesi (accusative nominative plural)
civiksesi (accusative genitive singular)
civiksesi (accusative genitive plural)
civiksesi (genitive singular)
civistesi (genitive plural)
civiksiesi (genitive plural)
civistäsi (partitive singular)
civiksiäsi (partitive plural)
civiksessäsi (inessive singular)
civiksissäsi (inessive plural)
civiksestäsi (elative singular)
civiksistäsi (elative plural)
civikseesi (illative singular)
civiksiisi (illative plural)
civikselläsi (adessive singular)
civiksilläsi (adessive plural)
civikseltäsi (ablative singular)
civiksiltäsi (ablative plural)
civiksellesi (allative singular)
civiksillesi (allative plural)
civiksenäsi (essive singular)
civiksinäsi (essive plural)
civikseksesi (singular translative)
civiksiksesi (plural translative)
civiksettäsi (abessive singular)
civiksittäsi (abessive plural)
civiksinesi (comitative plural)
civiksemme (nominative singular)
civiksemme (nominative plural)
civiksemme (accusative nominative singular)
civiksemme (accusative nominative plural)
civiksemme (accusative genitive singular)
civiksemme (accusative genitive plural)
civiksemme (genitive singular)
civistemme (genitive plural)
civiksiemme (genitive plural)
civistämme (partitive singular)
civiksiämme (partitive plural)
civiksessämme (inessive singular)
civiksissämme (inessive plural)
civiksestämme (elative singular)
civiksistämme (elative plural)
civikseemme (illative singular)
civiksiimme (illative plural)
civiksellämme (adessive singular)
civiksillämme (adessive plural)
civikseltämme (ablative singular)
civiksiltämme (ablative plural)
civiksellemme (allative singular)
civiksillemme (allative plural)
civiksenämme (essive singular)
civiksinämme (essive plural)
civikseksemme (singular translative)
civiksiksemme (plural translative)
civiksettämme (abessive singular)
civiksittämme (abessive plural)
civiksinemme (comitative plural)
civiksenne (nominative singular)
civiksenne (nominative plural)
civiksenne (accusative nominative singular)
civiksenne (accusative nominative plural)
civiksenne (accusative genitive singular)
civiksenne (accusative genitive plural)
civiksenne (genitive singular)
civistenne (genitive plural)
civiksienne (genitive plural)
civistänne (partitive singular)
civiksiänne (partitive plural)
civiksessänne (inessive singular)
civiksissänne (inessive plural)
civiksestänne (elative singular)
civiksistänne (elative plural)
civikseenne (illative singular)
civiksiinne (illative plural)
civiksellänne (adessive singular)
civiksillänne (adessive plural)
civikseltänne (ablative singular)
civiksiltänne (ablative plural)
civiksellenne (allative singular)
civiksillenne (allative plural)
civiksenänne (essive singular)
civiksinänne (essive plural)
civikseksenne (singular translative)
civiksiksenne (plural translative)
civiksettänne (abessive singular)
civiksittänne (abessive plural)
civiksinenne (comitative plural)
civiksensä (nominative singular)
civiksensä (nominative plural)
civiksensä (accusative nominative singular)
civiksensä (accusative nominative plural)
civiksensä (accusative genitive singular)
civiksensä (accusative genitive plural)
civiksensä (genitive singular)
civistensä (genitive plural)
civiksiensä (genitive plural)
civistään (partitive singular)
civistänsä (partitive singular)
civiksiään (partitive plural)
civiksiänsä (partitive plural)
civiksessään (inessive singular)
civiksessänsä (inessive singular)
civiksissään (inessive plural)
civiksissänsä (inessive plural)
civiksestään (elative singular)
civiksestänsä (elative singular)
civiksistään (elative plural)
civiksistänsä (elative plural)
civikseensä (illative singular)
civiksiinsä (illative plural)
civiksellään (adessive singular)
civiksellänsä (adessive singular)
civiksillään (adessive plural)
civiksillänsä (adessive plural)
civikseltään (ablative singular)
civikseltänsä (ablative singular)
civiksiltään (ablative plural)
civiksiltänsä (ablative plural)
civikselleen (allative singular)
civiksellensä (allative singular)
civiksilleen (allative plural)
civiksillensä (allative plural)
civiksenään (essive singular)
civiksenänsä (essive singular)
civiksinään (essive plural)
civiksinänsä (essive plural)
civiksekseen (singular translative)
civikseksensä (singular translative)
civiksikseen (plural translative)
civiksiksensä (plural translative)
civiksettään (abessive singular)
civiksettänsä (abessive singular)
civiksittään (abessive plural)
civiksittänsä (abessive plural)
civiksineen (comitative plural)
civiksinensä (comitative plural)

(university slang) A member of a student nation (osakunta) who is no longer a freshman (fuksi).

beaani

first year student nation member; in some nations


holy war

(Utah) The rivalry between the sports teams of Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.


sconcing

en-noun

sconcing (countable and uncountable, plural sconcings)

(uncountable, Oxford University slang) The activity of sconcing in general, as part of a meal or drinking game; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.


Doxbridge

An annual five-day sports tournament held in March in Dublin involving colleges of the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Durham and the University of York.


FCS

w:NCAA Division I#Football Championship Subdivision

(American football) Initialism of Football Championship Subdivision.


sconce

Unclear. Perhaps a use of sconce (“light fixture”) or sconce (“fortification”), but seemingly older than the latter

The table opposite started singing "shit sconce, shit scone^([sic]), shit sconce, shit sconce" […]

2014 February 25, James Burns, “Fishing for Sconces”, in funnywomen.com (blog), archived from the original on 2022-01-27:

(Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.


sconce

en-verb

sconce (third-person singular simple present sconces, present participle sconcing, simple past and past participle sconced)

sconces (present singular third-person)
sconcing (participle present)
sconced (participle past)
sconced (past)

I sconce anyone who has ever…

(Oxford University slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.


Rutgers

Dutch patronymic surname from the given name Rutger, the same as Roger and Rodgarus.


大学

1996 February 20 [1988 February 15], Mitsuru Adachi, “近況 [How It’s Going Now]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], 25th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 15:

Goes to a top-class university, lives in a condo in Aoyama, Tokyo. Plays on a rugby team, and on top of that, has a Merc.

一流大学、東京・青山マンション暮らし。ラグビー部、おまけにベンツ。

Ichiryū daigaku, Tōkyō Aoyama manshon gurashi. Ragubī-bu, omake ni Bentsu.


Stanford

Various place names from Old English stān (“stone”) + ford (“ford”).

Stanford (disambiguation)
Stanford University

A private university in Santa Clara County, California.

census-designated place
census-designated place

Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, the location of the eponymous university.


Stanford

From English Stanford, from Old English stān (“stone”) + ford (“ford”).


пара

ru-noun+

па́ра • (pára) f inan (genitive па́ры, nominative plural па́ры, genitive plural пар, relational adjective па́рный, diminutive па́рочка)

па́ра (canonical)
pára (romanization)
па́ры (genitive)
па́ры (nominative plural)
пар (genitive plural)
па́рный (adjective relational)
па́рочка (diminutive)
па́ра (nominative singular)
па́ры (nominative plural)
па́ры (genitive singular)
па́р (genitive plural)
па́ре (dative singular)
па́рам (dative plural)
па́ру (accusative singular)
па́ры (accusative plural)
па́рой (instrumental singular)
па́рою (instrumental singular)
па́рами (instrumental plural)
па́ре (prepositional singular)
па́рах (plural prepositional)
па́ра (dated nominative singular)
па́ры (dated nominative plural)
па́ры (dated genitive singular)
па́ръ (dated genitive plural)
па́рѣ (dated dative singular)
па́рамъ (dated dative plural)
па́ру (accusative dated singular)
па́ры (accusative dated plural)
па́рой (dated instrumental singular)
па́рою (dated instrumental singular)
па́рами (dated instrumental plural)
па́рѣ (dated prepositional singular)
па́рахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Yakut: паара (paara, “pair, couple”)

From Polish para, from Middle High German pâr (German Paar), from Latin pār.

two-hour lecture (e.g. for a university or college class)


пара

uk-noun

па́ра • (pára) f inan (genitive па́ри, nominative plural па́ри, genitive plural пар)

па́ра (canonical)
pára (romanization)
па́ри (genitive)
па́ри (nominative plural)
пар (genitive plural)
па́ра (nominative singular)
па́ри (nominative plural)
па́ри (genitive singular)
пар (genitive plural)
па́рі (dative singular)
па́рам (dative plural)
па́ру (accusative singular)
па́ри (accusative plural)
па́рою (instrumental singular)
па́рами (instrumental plural)
па́рі (locative singular)
па́рах (locative plural)
па́ро (singular vocative)
па́ри (plural vocative)

(informal) two-hour lecture (e.g. for a university or college class)


реп

реп • (rep) m pers (genitive ре́па, nominative plural ре́пи, genitive plural ре́пів)

rep (romanization)
ре́па (genitive)
ре́пи (nominative plural)
ре́пів (genitive plural)
реп (nominative singular)
ре́пи (nominative plural)
ре́па (genitive singular)
ре́пів (genitive plural)
ре́пові (dative singular)
ре́пу (dative singular)
ре́пам (dative plural)
ре́па (accusative singular)
ре́пів (accusative plural)
ре́пом (instrumental singular)
ре́пами (instrumental plural)
ре́пові (locative singular)
ре́пу (locative singular)
ре́пі (locative singular)
ре́пах (locative plural)
ре́пе (singular vocative)
ре́пи (plural vocative)


red brick university

en-noun

red brick university (plural red brick universities)

From the memoir Redbrick University by Edgar Allison Peers, whose titular university is based on the University of Liverpool. Liverpool, like most urban universities of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, extensively uses red clay bricks in its architecture.

It took a while before he told me his background: a happy childhood; two degrees—a bachelor's from a red brick university and an Oxbridge PhD; a relatively high-flying job in academia that he liked rather than loved.

2006 March 31, Adrian Turpin, “Not tonight darling, I'm online”, in Financial Times, retrieved 2006-03-31:

(British) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.

Edgar Allison Peers
University of Liverpool
red brick university


redbrick

red brick university
red brick university#English


студент

ru-noun+

студе́нческий

студе́нт • (studént) m anim (genitive студе́нта, nominative plural студе́нты, genitive plural студе́нтов, feminine студе́нтка, relational adjective студе́нческий)

студе́нт (canonical)
studént (romanization)
студе́нта (genitive)
студе́нты (nominative plural)
студе́нтов (genitive plural)
студе́нтка (feminine)
студе́нческий (adjective relational)
студе́нт (nominative singular)
студе́нты (nominative plural)
студе́нта (genitive singular)
студе́нтов (genitive plural)
студе́нту (dative singular)
студе́нтам (dative plural)
студе́нта (accusative singular)
студе́нтов (accusative plural)
студе́нтом (instrumental singular)
студе́нтами (instrumental plural)
студе́нте (prepositional singular)
студе́нтах (plural prepositional)

→ Kazakh: студент (student)

Ru-студент.ogg

Probably from Polish student or German Student, from Latin studens.

student (in a university or college), undergraduate

студе́нтъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)