mud student

English

Noun

mud student (plural mud students)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A student of agriculture.
   • 1865, Henry Hall Dixon, Field and Fern: Or, Scottish Flocks & Herds (South), page 188:

     This dog was bred by a “mud student” in the Coldstream or Cornhill district, and had for his sire a dog Dandie, bred by Mr. Frain of Trows.

   • 1894, Rhoda Broughton, A Beginner, page 20:

     “Is he a new mud student?”
     “He is not the cut of a mud student.”

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary: “Mud-student, a farming pupil. The name given to the students at the Agricultural College, Cirencester.”