(n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the appeal of Ridgewell, who went from out-of-contract at a relegation battler in the Premier League to a Designated Player in Major League Soccer.
(2) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(3) I’ve always been a battler.” He remains a shareholder in the company “at the moment”, he told 3AW.
(4) Howard and Crosby used a Queenslander, Pauline Hanson, to assist during the 1990s when "battlers" felt threatened by Aboriginal gains of land and other rights.
(5) But PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(6) The former prime minister John Howard has warned media and politicians not to treat Pauline Hanson like a “scorned species” because isolating or attacking her will add to her battler appeal.
(7) PUP senator from Tasmania Jacqui Lambie accused the Abbott government of seeking to take money from battlers for “blind ideological reasons”.
(8) After this, a couple of new franchises – the long-awaited Crytek battler Ryse: Sons of Rome , the trailer for which managed to re-depict the Normandy beach landings as a battle of the ancient world.
(9) His hair wasn’t long, he was wearing shoes – he looked like he could be a real Aussie Battler in a couple of years.
(10) This was two points dropped rather than one gained for Sunderland, but at a ground where they suffered the humiliation of losing 8-0 last season, it was revenge of sorts and defeats elsewhere for fellow relegation battlers Newcastle United and Norwich City made it a little sweeter.
(11) Deaf for most of his Westminster career, he was an inspiration to people with disabilities, a battler on their behalf and a relentless pursuer of justice for underdog causes.
(12) Both campaigns (based on what they are saying in terms of their topline messages) look like they think the big bulk of 'undecideds' resides in the "battlers" demographic.
(13) The Manchester United manager said he had no words to describe the disappointment of the past week, going out of the Champions League, going down at Bournemouth and so on, so imagine his dismay when Alex Neil’s relegation-battlers took a first-half lead here and held on for three points.
(14) There’s a long way to go but, without Ofsted being there, I’ve no doubt standards will fall and we would go backwards, not forwards.” In his sometimes turbulent time at the inspectorate, he suggested parents should be fined if they do not turn up for parents’ evening; he said teachers who leave at 3pm should be paid less; he has backed schools that ban “inappropriate wearing” of full-face veils and issued a call to arms for maverick school leaders who are “battlers, bruisers and battle-axes” who will not put up with mediocrity.
(15) In Australia, it was former prime minister John Howard’s “Battlers”, those all-important aspirational voters of the largely white working class, who live on the fringes of our capital cities and in our regional centres.
(16) In criticising the 2012 budget, Abbott said Labor's plan “deliberately, coldly, calculatedly plays the class war card” by abandoning company tax cuts and replacing them with means-tested payments “because a drowning government has decided to portray the political contest in this country as billionaires versus battlers”.
(17) Xbox One thrills – and spills Ryse: Son of Rome: beachhead battler.
(18) You have to recognise that people voted for her.” Howard warned that in public debate in the late 90s the more Hanson was attacked “the more popular she became because those attacks enhanced her Australian battler image and she plays off that”.
(19) A self-described “battler” from Sydney has had the cost of his Domino’s Pizza order refunded after 18 months and a successful court battle.
(20) From an early age Silva was considered a guerreira, a battler, overcoming numerous episodes of tropical diseases such as malaria, and later mercury poisoning.
Tattler
Definition:
(n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.
(n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.