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Fellow Commoner

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A wealthy or married undergraduate of Cambridge, who pays extra to “common” (i.e. dine) at the fellowsʹ table. In Oxford, these demi-dons are termed Gentlemen Commoners.

Fellow commoner or gentleman commoner. An empty bottle; so called because these sort of students are, as a class, empty-headed.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Fee-tail (A)
Feeble
Feed of Corn
Feet
Fehm-gericht
Felician (Father)
Felix
Felixmarte
Fell (Dr.)
Fellow Commoner
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Feme-covert
Feme-sole
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Femynye
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Fence Month
Fenchurch Street (London)
Fencible Regiments
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