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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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COLLEGIANER, Collegioner, Colleeginer, Colliginer, n. A student at a University (Bnff.², Fif.¹⁰, Lnk.³ 1937). The form collegeaner is used by Scott in H. Midlothian (1818) viii. [kɔ′lidʒənər, kɔ′lɪdʒənər]Bnff.(D) 1872 W. M. Philip It 'ill a' Come Richt 18:
A girl about fifteen years of age, who was engaged making a shirt to Charlie, “the Colleeginer.”Abd. 1879 G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie III. i.:
Now that he was leaving them, a herd-boy no more, but a colliginer, and going to be a gentleman, it was right to be liberal.Ags. 1853 W. Blair Chron. of Aberbrothock xv.:
She had a son fa was a collegioner.Edb. 1825 R. Chambers Trad. of Edb. (1847) 76:
Sir James [Dick] became Catholic, and, while provost in 1681, had his house burned over his head by the collegianers.Ayr. 1887 J. Service Dr Duguid 235:
You young Collegianers in Glesco ken mair aboot it, I'm thinkin', than ye would let wut.