tyrone
nounUK /taɪˈɹəʊni/ · US /taɪˈɹoʊni/
Etymology Borrowed from Italian tirone, from Latin tīrō (“beginner, novice; young apprentice; (Roman military) recruit”): see further at tyro.
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Obsolete Synonym of tyro (“a beginner, a novice”).
- Of the Society of them there are threeſcore and no more. But of thoſe punies, thoſe tyrones that are brought vp vnder thoſe threeſcore, there are no leſſe then a thouſand and fiue hundred, vvho haue certaine other Schooles in the tovvne farre remote from this Colledge, vvhich ſerueth for another Seminary to inſtruct their Nouices.1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of Lyons”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], →OCLC, page 63, lines 1–7:
- [T]he chirurgeons have an useful practice, by which they put their apprentices and tyrones to work upon senseless dead bodies, to which, as they can do no good, so they certainly can do as little harm; while at the same time the tyro, or apprentice, gains experience, and becomes fit to whip off a leg or arm from a living subject, as cleanly as ye would slice an onion.1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter XIII. Alan Fairford to Darsie Latimer.”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 298: