| 单词 | term-trotter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasterm-trotter term-trotter n. (a) a person who visits or resides in London during a legal term; = termer n. 1; cf. term-driver n. (obsolete); (b) University slang (chiefly Oxford University) a student who observes the university terms merely as a formality; esp. one who spends as little time at university as possible (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > one who comes to law-courts for term term-suitor1602 term-trotter1607 term-driver1633 society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > non-working student term-trotter1782 1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. C I haue beene a Tearme-trotter my selfe anye time this fiue and fortie yeares. 1782 V. Knox Ess. I. 336 The majority are what are called term-trotters, that is, persons who only keep the terms for form-sake..to qualify them for degrees. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 566 His modesty has induced him to take a title, which any term-trotter may assume, almost as soon as matriculated. 1809 Monthly Mirror Jan. 6 Mr. Hilary is as smart, spruce, smirking, a Term-trotter, as ever paraded Westminster-Hall in black stockings and white buckles. 1857 T. Wright Dict. Obsolete & Provinc. Eng. Termers, persons who visited the metropolis only at term-time, and chiefly to live by intrigues or tricks. Called also term-trotters. 1907 M. A. R. Tuker Cambridge iii. 183 The Cambridge degree was still something better than the Oxford when at the end of that century [sc. the 18th] aspirants for degrees at both universities were adequately described as ‘term-trotters’. 2003 J. P. Raines & C. G. Leathers Econ. Inst. Higher Educ. ii. 28 The majority of candidates were not residents, but ‘term-trotters’ who spent the minimal weeks in the University to qualify them according to the letter of the Statutes. < as lemmas |
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