bejan
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Etymology[edit]
From French béjaune (“freshman”), from bec jaune (“yellow beak”), in allusion to young birds.
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Noun[edit]
bejan (plural bejans)
- (now historical) A freshman at various Scottish and continental universities.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 215:
- They'd been at it, say and night, for four years – only to be shown up by a snivelling little wimp of a bejan.