Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Germany, a boy or lad; specifically, a student at a university, especially a corps-student.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A youth; especially, a student in a german university.
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Examples
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These young men (together with the students of sciences) comport themselves towards the sober citizen pretty much as the German bursch towards the philister, or as the military man, during the empire, did to the pékin: — from the height of their poverty they look down upon him with the greatest imaginable scorn — a scorn, I think, by which the citizen seems dazzled, for his respect for the arts is intense.
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"Because you still make your own dresses and teach dancing," replied the pupil, with a quick sigh at the thought of some smart bursch in the Prussian contingent.
Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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I have kept my feet in Jena, when each bursch to earth declined;
The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862
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These young men (together with the students of sciences) comport themselves towards the sober citizen pretty much as the German bursch towards the philister, or as the military man, during the empire, did to the pékin: -- from the height of their poverty they look down upon him with the greatest imaginable scorn -- a scorn, I think, by which the citizen seems dazzled, for his respect for the arts is intense.
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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I'll make sure to keep an eye out for more. thank you. nothing special. larger cylinders, bursch exhaust. suspension upgrades coming very soon. (and some better video quality)
de.lirio.us 2008
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'"Hark ye, bursch!" exclaimed Jonas, who regarded him with fatherly delight, "thou seem'st to me almost too learned, too refined, and too elegant for Veit Jordan.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 Various 1841
qms commented on the word bursch
To get drunk at a kneip's not a smirch.
Be proud of the belch and the lurch!
It's a teutonic truth:
Such a toot for a youth’s
The mark of a red-blooded bursch.
August 14, 2015