-former
[f. form n. 6 b + -er1.]
In schools, a member of a specified class or form, as sixth-former.
| 1869 Third-former [see third a. 5]. 1927 J. Elder Thomasina Toddy xi, Sixth and Fifth formers who were in the Elevens. Ibid. xii, They gained on the Sixth-formers' boat. 1928 Daily Express 31 Aug. 15/2 One of them inquired of a small fourth-former whether he had seen any suspicious characters about. 1960 D. Potter Glittering Coffin vi. 82 The choice of grammar school sixth-formers would be Oxford or Cambridge first. 1969 Listener 20 Feb. 252/1 A more likable, fourth-former-to-fourth-former note. |