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Quotation dates: 1822
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BELGOIT, n. A nickname for a junior pupil at Edinburgh Royal High School. Obs.Sc. 1822 Scots Mag. (Feb.) 228:
If you are not content to rank in understanding beneath the very "Belgoits" of the High-school forms, you will have no difficulty whatever in following the Doctor through this original . . . on "Moods and Tenses".
[The first element is obscure; the second is a variant of Get, n., 4.]
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