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English
Noun
mud student (plural mud students)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A student of agriculture.
1865, Henry Hall Dixon, Field and Fern: Or, Scottish Flocks & Herds (South), page 188:This dog was bred by a “mud student” in the Coldstream or Cornhill district, and had for his sire a dog Dandie, bred by Mr. Frain of Trows.
1894, Rhoda Broughton, A Beginner, page 20:“Is he a new mud student?”
“He is not the cut of a mud student.”
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary: “Mud-student, a farming pupil. The name given to the students at the Agricultural College, Cirencester.”