new bug

English

Noun

new bug (plural new bugs)

(UK, school slang) A new pupil.
- 1987 September 17, Richard Curtis & Ben Elton, Dish and Dishonesty (Blackadder the Third), season 3, episode 1, spoken by Pitt the Younger (Simon Osborne):
  Hello, chappie... You a new bug?
- 1993, Morpurgo, Michael, The War of Jenkins' Ear:
  From the other end Porter was glaring at them. "Hey you! New bug!" The bath fell silent.

Synonyms

fresher, freshman, novi (Tonbridge School), puny (Oxford University), shadow (Westminster School)

Hypernyms

See Thesaurus:beginner

References

Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book‎, London: Hirshfeld Brothers, page 139

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