prexy
Americannoun
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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
Pomton's scheming secretary not only writes his speeches but has the final say on his successor when the prexy leaves for what can only be a drearier job.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the hope of a squib for his column, however, O'Hara sat down after getting the lather off his chin and wrote a letter asking what the Senator thought of the new prexy.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shake thy hand, New prexy of our well-known land.
From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)
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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