sizar means an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
An alteration of sizer, from size (“fixed portion”) + -er.
noun
- An undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge who receives an allowance for his college expenses or tuition, sometimes in return for doing a defined job.