schoolie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.13 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.
Australian usage
noun
A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events."
- "Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies."
- "If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies."
- "But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she′d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie."
- "Arbroath, being a training station for young naval airmen, also housed several ‘schoolies’ (education officers), four of whom lived in an adjacent building to mine. I quickly struck up a close friendship with two of the schoolies, Ron Horner and Vivian Price."
- "1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94, Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches."
Etymology
Etymology tree English school Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English schoolie From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).