prexy
Americannoun
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prexies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of prexy
1855–60; prex (by shortening and alteration of president ) + -y 2
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Beans Reardon on hand to see that nobody threw out the first umpire, and Babe Herman there to make sure nobody jammed up third base… former Coliseum prexy Jim Smith…
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 1958
To Smith's girls, impatient to see their new prexy, Dr. Neilson last week reported that after considering 100 candidates the trustees had elected Mr. Davis "very enthusiastically."
From Time Magazine Archive
Twice as good for a prexy too, Eisenhower is the man for you.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides her Wellesley background, her Pulitzer Prize and her ability to cope with a college class, it appeared that Margaret Clapp had other qualities important in a college prexy serenity and aplomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shake thy hand, New prexy of our well-known land.
From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
Two other famed prexies, Harvard's Dr. Nathan M. Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment.
From Time Magazine Archive
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