passman

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7

Definition of passman

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (British, archaic)One who passes a university degree, but without honours.
    “As one reads history—not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time—one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; […]”
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noun

  1. (British, archaic)One who passes a university degree, but without honours.
    “As one reads history—not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time—one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; […]”

name

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for a seller or grower of peas.

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Etymology

From pass + -man.

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