Wykehamist


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Wykehamist

(ˈwɪkəmɪst)
n
(Education) a pupil or former pupil of Winchester College
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Noun1.Wykehamist - a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
educatee, pupil, student - a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution
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Three days later Mr Rees-Mogg had a pop at a fellow MP by saying: "My honourable friend makes a characteristically Wykehamist point.
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There are three early examples, within a few pages of each other: a Malapropism for "Wykehamist" (Barbour has "Wyckamite," 37); an incorrect notation of pre-decimal [pounds sterling]/s/d coinage, a notation lost only in February 1971 and thus available to living memory, let alone to current early modern scholarship (see e.g.
Reid Barbour. Sir Thomas Browne: A Life
ON this day in 1924 an "old Wykehamist" - former pupil of Winchester College - wrote:
Daily Mirror 100 Years: Post Date
Some of this material--the talk of cricket, and of the quaint foibles of dons and beaks; the potshots at Winchester ("A common Wykehamist trait" snipes Lyttleton, "is to suspect the sincerity of all non-Wykehamists")--will appeal only to diehard Anglophiles.
The Lyttleton Hart-Davis Letters: A Selection
Neither is the great English poet John Betjeman (1906-84) done full justice for we find no mention of his wonderful account of the arrest of Oscar Wilde or the 'rather dirty Wykehamist ' or that wonderful symbol of English womanhood, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, 'furnish'd and burnish'd by the Aldershot sun.' But there is much to please in the 1,319 pages.
Speaking Words of wisdom; Cassell's Movie Quotation. By Nigel Rees (Cassell, pounds 20). Encarta Book of Quotations. Editor Bill Swainson (Bloomsbury pounds 30).The Last Word. By Donald Sinden (Robson Books, pounds 6.99). Reviewed by Ross Reyburn

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