dayboy

British

/ ˈdeɪˌbɔɪ /

noun

a boy who attends a boarding school daily, but returns home each evening

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This was no other than poor Jack Butts, who is a sort of small artist and picture-dealer by profession, and was a dayboy at Slaughter House when we were there, and very serviceable in bringing in sausages, pots of pickles, and other articles of merchandise, which we could not otherwise procure.

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