tuten.
/tjuːt/ colloquial.
= tutor n. or tutorial n.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > tutorial
tute1895
tutorial1978
society > education > teaching > teacher > university or college teacher > [noun] > tutor
tutorc1610
superviser1616
pupil-mongera1661
college tutor1790
répétiteur1812
tute1895
supervisor1918
1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 65 Tute, tutor.
1955 J. I. M. Stewart Guardians iii. ii. 217 Jones is my tutor, and this happened at my first tute this term.
1957 D. Balsdon Oxf. Life 169 But the College tutor's public lecture is an interruption in a week otherwise devoted to teaching pupils in his rooms, listening to their essays and talking about them. These are ‘private hours’—‘tutes’, as undergraduates call them, or tutorials.
1982 T. Heald Masterstroke iii. 64 We did political theory tutes together.
Derivatives
tute v. [shortened < tutor v.] = tutor v.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [verb (intransitive)] > take pupils or tutor
pupillize1840
tute1934
society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [verb (transitive)] > tutor or coach
tutor1592
teacher1619
tutorize1839
pupillize1840
coach1848
grind1859
pony1865
tute1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tute, v.t. & i.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §197/9 Tute, tutor, to give private instruction.
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