10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERGRADUETTE»
Discover the use of
undergraduette in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
undergraduette and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
This, together with undergraduette (1919, and see below) and majorette (AmE, in
drum majorette, 1938), represent a distinct anticlimax after a promising start. A
trickle of trivial words continued in the post-war years, until the suffix was taken
up ...
2
For authors only, and other gloomy essays
Even the male journalists of the Cherwell, in their cavalier attacks on
undergraduette peculiarities, seem to echo the anti -co-ed moans that emanated
from Cornell University some thirty years ago. A Cherwell editorial, late in 1933,
said this: ...
Kenneth Lewis Roberts, 1968
3
The Anchora of Delta Gamma
There are occasional lectures at five; the Undergraduette finds time to read,
prolong the tea-hour with her friends before the tiny fire in her rooms, or to work
on that weekly essay to be taken to her tutor tomorrow. At Dinner At dinner in hall
the ...
4
The Golden Book Magazine
As one who is old-fashioned enough to deplore the existence of hearty and
muscular women, I am the first to congratulate the "undergraduette's" feminine
reluctance to enter openly into what is essentially a masculine domain. The girl
who ...
Henry Wysham Lanier, 1935
5
The University of Oxford: A New History
'A pretty undergraduette can beexcused: butapretty woman don seems an
anomaly.' Itis claimed that women 'overemphasise the necessity for reading and
learning and sitting up night after night ... learning lists and argumentsand
references'.
6
Barbara Ward: Her Life and Letters
Towards the end of the twenties however a change crept over the face of the
University – rather shall we say over the face of the undergraduette. Some few
were found capable of dealing with Socrates or a powder puff with equal
distinction ...
7
The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography
... with 'ess'or 'ette'attached— 'poetess,' 'authoress,' 'undergraduette' and so on.
Why not 'doctorette' or 'busdriveress'?”20 But while Renault insisted on the
limitations of any imposed classification and rejected the categories of identity
politics ...
8
Contesting the Moral High Ground: Popular Moralists in ...
Their energy does not however match their eloquence.” She did concede overall
that “this new rec— ognition of the undergraduette socially, intellectually and
artistically adds greatly to the value of a career in Oxford.”4 Though facing a
number ...
9
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
Exx: cigarette, lit a little cigar, adopted from F; serviette, form-adopted but sense-
adapted from F, which derives it from servir, v used as n; undergraduette, -ette
being substituted for -ate. -etto—-cf -etta above—occurs only in a few italianisms,
...
10
Diminutives in English
Furthermore, no English nonce formations have been attested in which the suffix
follows /b/ (cf. Bauer 1983, 88f.). 3" Longer words are also possible as input, but
extremely rare; cf., e.g., pentasyllabic undergraduate (yielding undergraduette, ...
