| 单词 | day-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasday-boy day-boy n. (also dayboy) chiefly British a boy who lives at home but attends a school where other pupils board; also in extended use; cf. day girl n., day pupil n., day student n., day scholar n. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil day scholar1699 day-boy1750 day boarder1758 day pupil1784 day student1795 home boarder1816 day girl1831 out-pupil1841 extern1848 daybug1909 1750 L. Chambaud Gram. French Tongue Pref. p. xxi A new day-boy is also to come the next week, but we are to have no holy-day for him. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lvi. 507 Georgy was, like some dozen other pupils, only a day boy. 1914 Spectator 17 Oct. 516/2 We would train a portion of the men in what we may describe as ‘day-boy’ battalions... Up till the time of the Boer War..there were two battalions of London Militia who were always trained on the ‘day-boy’ system. The men lived in their own homes, and came to the depot each day for their recruit training. 1971 Brit. Jrnl. Educ. Stud. 19 163 He went to the new King William's College, Isle of Man, as a dayboy for three years. 2004 H. Holt Silent Killer (2005) i. 19 After all, there are some very good schools quite near where they can be day-boys. < as lemmas |
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