"pollman" meaning in All languages combined

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "poll",
        "3": "man",
        "gloss1": "ordinary university degree"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of poll (“ordinary university degree”) + man",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "πολύς",
        "4": "πολλοί",
        "5": "the many, the masses"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English man",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mann",
        "4": "",
        "5": "human being, person, man",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of poll (“ordinary university degree”) + man. First part from Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”). Second part from Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pollmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pollmen"
      },
      "expansion": "pollman (plural pollmen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Universities",
          "orig": "en:Universities",
          "parents": [
            "Schools",
            "Buildings",
            "Education",
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Society",
            "Architecture",
            "All topics",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860 July 1, “IX. Cambridge University Reform”, in The British Quarterly Review, volume 32, page 227",
          "text": "Even the wretched pollmen cannot be expected to unravel the quirks and catches in their elementary papers with any degree of credit, unless they have been privately trained for the purpose.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869 January 16, “A French View of English Schools”, in The Saturday Review, volume 27, number 690, page 92",
          "text": "Nevertheless, it is tolerably clear, from various parts of their Report, that while they believe the best Harrow or Rugby boy to be equal to the picked scholars of their own schools, they are persuaded that the average Harrow or Rugby boy—one, for example, who goes from the fifth form to be a pollman at Cambridge or an officer in the army—knows less, and has received less intellectual training and intellectual stimulus, than a French boy of the same age.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889 March 2, Academy",
          "text": "It is related of some Cambridge poll-man that he was once so ill-advised as to desert a private tutor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who takes an ordinary university degree, without honours."
      ],
      "id": "en-pollman-en-noun-Kjlab-FK",
      "links": [
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary"
        ],
        [
          "university",
          "university"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "honours",
          "honours"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Cambridge University slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical, Cambridge University slang) One who takes an ordinary university degree, without honours."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "go out in the poll"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "passman"
        },
        {
          "word": "poll"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pollman"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "poll",
        "3": "man",
        "gloss1": "ordinary university degree"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of poll (“ordinary university degree”) + man",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "πολύς",
        "4": "πολλοί",
        "5": "the many, the masses"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English man",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mann",
        "4": "",
        "5": "human being, person, man",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of poll (“ordinary university degree”) + man. First part from Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”). Second part from Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pollmen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pollmen"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "go out in the poll"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "British English",
        "Cambridge University slang",
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Universities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1860 July 1, “IX. Cambridge University Reform”, in The British Quarterly Review, volume 32, page 227",
          "text": "Even the wretched pollmen cannot be expected to unravel the quirks and catches in their elementary papers with any degree of credit, unless they have been privately trained for the purpose.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1869 January 16, “A French View of English Schools”, in The Saturday Review, volume 27, number 690, page 92",
          "text": "Nevertheless, it is tolerably clear, from various parts of their Report, that while they believe the best Harrow or Rugby boy to be equal to the picked scholars of their own schools, they are persuaded that the average Harrow or Rugby boy—one, for example, who goes from the fifth form to be a pollman at Cambridge or an officer in the army—knows less, and has received less intellectual training and intellectual stimulus, than a French boy of the same age.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1889 March 2, Academy",
          "text": "It is related of some Cambridge poll-man that he was once so ill-advised as to desert a private tutor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who takes an ordinary university degree, without honours."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "ordinary",
          "ordinary"
        ],
        [
          "university",
          "university"
        ],
        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "honours",
          "honours"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Cambridge University slang",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, historical, Cambridge University slang) One who takes an ordinary university degree, without honours."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "passman"
    },
    {
      "word": "poll"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pollman"
}