Brodie-ite

Created by Unknown User (tjc13), last modified on Nov 24, 2008

1. NN: Person who spends time in Brode, the arts building. 2. NN: Person avante-garde in dress and with artistic tendencies; "Stunning clothes, eh? He must be a Brodie-ite."F90 NN-Almost Obs. (F92) Said to be replaced by ‘‘Brodie rat’’ and ‘‘brodie freak’’ with same two meanings. S94 NN-Obs. S99 NN: Identified by students, but shown to be falling out of usage in speech. F06 D.McGiveron

Fall 2008- 100% of those surveyed were able to correctly define this term in its first definition.  Term has fallen out of use in favor of synonymous term "Brodie-Kid".

This entry originally created by D. McGiveron, 2006

Comments:

83% of surveyed did not know this word. The other 17% surveyed could define this word, which suggests the word may not be obsolete but rather known by a small percentage of the school. (Serbalik, A-F, 2019)

Posted by jys1 at Apr 13, 2019 21:06

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