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bejan|ˈbiːdʒən|
Forms: 7 bajon, 7–9 bajan, 9 bejaune, bejeant, bejan, bigent.
[a. F. béjaune novice, freshman (f. bec jaune ‘yellow beak,’ in allusion to young birds. See Littré, s.v. Bec, Béjaune); cf. Ger. gelbschnabel.]
A freshman at the Scotch universities, where the term was adopted from the University of Paris. (Now obsolete at Edinburgh.) Also attrib.
[1611Cotgr., Bejaune, a novice..or yong beginner in, a Trade, or Art. Payer son bejaune, to pay his welcome; a fee exacted by schollers, of such as are newly admitted into their societie.] 1642Baillie Lett. 10 May 794 There will be near 60 Bajons already. c1670T. Craufurd Hist. Univ. Edin. 63 (Jam.) No Bajans convened all that year. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. x (1743) 441 The first year the students [at Edinburgh] who are called Bajans, are taught only Greek. 1814W. Tennant Anster Fair ii, Up from their mouldy books..had sprung Bigent and Magistrand to try the game. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 270. 1868 G. Macdonald R. Falconer II. 65 His grandmother yielded, and Robert was straightway a Bejan or Yellow-beak. 1884Sir A. Grant Story Univ. Edin. I. iii. 144. |