prexy
Americannoun
plural
prexiesEtymology
Origin of prexy
1855–60; prex (by shortening and alteration of president ) + -y 2
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
No Ph.D., he became university comptroller at 29, prexy at 38.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or, possibly, prexy Wallington, under whom he had worked while taking his doctor's degree.
From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Reynolds, Mack
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