mud student

noun

noun

UK, Obsolete, Slang A student of agriculture.

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.1865, Henry Hall Dixon, Field and Fern: Or, Scottish Flocks & Herds (South), page 188:
“Is he a new mud student?” “He is not the cut of a mud student.”1894, Rhoda Broughton, A Beginner, page 20:

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