Yalien.
/ˈjeɪli/ U.S. colloquial.
A student or graduate of Yale University.
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society > education > member of university > [noun] > (former) specific university or college
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Oxford man1590
Oxfordian1645
Johnian1655
hog1690
Harvardian1702
squil1721
Cantab1751
king's man1751
Wadhamite1760
Princetonian1807
Brunonian1829
merchant tailor1829
Trinitarian1852
houseman1868
polytechnician1871
Mertonian1883
Cheltonian1887
Girtonian1887
Girtonite1894
Newnhamite1896
woman1896
normalien1904
Somervillian1904
Orangeman1908
Tab1914
Ivy Leaguer1943
Oxbridgean1959
plate-glasser1968
Yalie1969
1969 Newsweek 12 May 71/1 One new Yalie..attended Harvard summer school and found time to visit New Haven to look Yale over.
1970 E. Segal Love Story xviii. 114 He's a Yalie, Ol... A total Yalie. College and Med School.
1972 Nature 4 Feb. 290/2 The availability of feminine companionship during the Monday-to-Friday period during which Yalies have traditionally gone without.
1983 Washington Post 21 Nov. b15/3 FDR, as editor of the Crimson, is said to have once gotten out a special post-victory edition, sticking it to the Yalies just as the fans were leaving the stadium.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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