Etymology

sizar

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Today it means: An undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job. Full definition →

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The story

An alteration of sizer, from size (“fixed portion”) + -er.

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