scollard

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

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

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

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

Oh yes; I've been to school -- board-school scollard.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

I am no scollard, and so no more from your obedient, humble servant,

Clara Hopgood Mark Rutherford 1872

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

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

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

My poor Mark wrote such verses -- ah, he _was_ a scollard! "

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various