Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vulgar corruption of scholar.
Etymologies
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Examples
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What need you frighten a poor girl that is no schollard, bating what she learned at the Charity School of
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"You know Mark was a schollard, sir, like my poor, poor, sister; and though I was a sad stupid girl afore I married, I tried to take after him when we came together."
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Little lame Phelim came for an hour each afternoon to Miss Annie's room to be made a "schollard, shure;" and every Saturday evening found
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse
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Not that my Alf ain't a schollard, and can't behave himself.
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I have been requested to tell my story in my own langwidge, though, being no schollard, mind cannot conceive.
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I have been requested to tell my story in my own langwidge, though, being no schollard, mind cannot conceive.
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It was the wife herself, she's a great schollard, and reads the papers, that tould me not to pay you more than half the rent -- for she says there's a new Act coming to wipe it all out.
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So they got into the train at Steventon in pretty good heart, with his fare paid, and half-a-sovereign in his pocket, more and more impressed in his mind with what a wonderful thing it was to be "a schollard."
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You sees, your honour, the Corporal's got a tarn for conversation-like -- he be a mighty fine talker surely! but he be shy of the pen -- 'tis not every man what talks biggest what's the best schollard at bottom.
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"You know Mark was a schollard, sir, like my poor, poor sister; and though I was a sad stupid girl afore I married, I tried to take after him when we came together."
vendingmachine commented on the word schollard
A corruption, perhaps... but vulgar? Words have feelings, too. Down with word-shaming!
April 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word schollard
See vulgar, AHD 5:
adj. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular
April 12, 2018
qms commented on the word schollard
The pompous word tyrant’s been collared.
In shame and confusion he hollered,
‘Oh, give me reprieve
And I’ll give you leave
To tolerate riff-raff like ‘schollard!’”
April 12, 2018
bilby commented on the word schollard
Derived from the traditional southern dish of schollard greens whence freshmen would make themselves academic robes from cabbage leaves and then eat them at their college induction dinner to celebrate academic freedom.
April 12, 2018