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Siʹzar

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A poor scholar whose assize of food is given him. Sizars used to have what was left at the fellowsʹ table, because it was their duty at one time to wait on the fellows at dinner. Each fellow had his sizar. (Cambridge University.)

 

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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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Six-and-Eightpence
Six Articles (33 Henry VIII.)
Six-hooped Pot
Six Members
Six Months War
Six Nations (The)
Six Points
Six-Principle Baptists (The)
Sixes and Sevens (All)
Sixteen-string Jack
Sizar
Sizings
Skains-mate or Skeins-mate
Skald
Skedaddle
Skeggs
Skeleton
Skeleton Jackets
Skevington’s Daughter
Skibbereen and Connemara (in Ireland)
Skibbereen Eagle (The)

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Sizar