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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bejan

A freshman or greenhorn. This term is employed in the French and Scotch universities, and is evidently a corruption of bec jaune (yellow beak), a French expression to designate a nestling or unfledged bird. In the university of Vienna the freshman is termed beanus, and in France footing-money is bejaunia.

“His grandmother yielded, and Robert was straightway a bejan or yellow-beak.” —Macdonald: R. Falconer.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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