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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal variant of
scholar .
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Examples
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The other woman, Janet, was what she called a 'poor scollard', but Tochatti went one better, for she could neither write nor read.
Afterwards Kathlyn Rhodes
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I'm no scollard, as poor Mark was, and Lenny would have been, if the Lord had not visited us otherways.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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DEER SIR, -- i am not a scollard and can't understand more'n 'alf your letter if you don't lik my cow why not go back were you cum from i dunno what you mean by consequences but if you lay' ands on my cow i'll 'ave the lor of you.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28 Various
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So we did middling well, and Jan got one of the men that was a bit of a scollard to write to his mother, and got a hawker to take the letter along for the mending of his shoes.
The Drummer's Coat 1896
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Oh yes; I've been to school -- board-school scollard.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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I am no scollard, and so no more from your obedient, humble servant,
Clara Hopgood Mark Rutherford 1872
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I was a-saying, tells me as how this boy, John, have got a good head, and would make a fine scollard, and how, by-and-by, he means to take him for a stoodient, and make a lawyer on him.
Ishmael In the Depths Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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Well, he drew hugely, and so he did, every time he came, so that the great families in the neighbourhood would go to hear him; and he lodged in my house, and had pleasant ways with him, and was what I call a scollard.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Well, he drew hugely, and so he did, every time he came, so that the great families in the neighbourhood would go to hear him; and he lodged in my house, and had pleasant ways with him, and was what I call a scollard.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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My poor Mark wrote such verses -- ah, he _was_ a scollard! "
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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