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Wykehamist

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Wykehamist [ˈwɪkəmɪst]
n
(Social Science / Education) a pupil or former pupil of Winchester College
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Noun1.Wykehamist - a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
educatee, pupil, student - a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution


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Some of this material--the talk of cricket, and of the quaint foibles of dons and beaks; the potshots at Winchester ("A common Wykehamist trait" snipes Lyttleton, "is to suspect the sincerity of all non-Wykehamists")--will appeal only to diehard Anglophiles.
He was a Wykehamist, an Oxonian, an economics don and then a wartime civil servant - and a good one.
The precocious splendour of Bradman had laid the home side to waste in England in 1930 but as it did so, England's patrician captain-to-be, Oxford Wykehamist Jardine, sensed the colonial boy wonder didn't like it up 'im, that he was scared of bouncers.
 
 
 
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