sixie
sixie noun: a seventh-grader at Boston Latin School.
Noun
sixie (plural sixies)
- A seventh-grader at Boston Latin School.
- Elena went on to Boston Latin alone, and Genette got into a crowd in her middle school. Even though Elena was in seventh grade, at Boston Latin she was called a sixie, and they were the bottom of the heap.1999, Marge Piercy, Three Women
- We can hum the "1812 Overture" (complete with howitzer) from memory, we've got streets named after Mendelssohn and Liszt, and we knew Lenny Bernstein when he was a sixie at Latin.2006, John Powers, The Boston Handbook, page 94
Forms of sixie
| plural | sixies |
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Origin of sixie
From six + -ie, in reference to their six years until graduation.
Questions about sixie
- What does sixie mean?
- Sixie means a seventh-grader at Boston Latin School.
- What part of speech is sixie?
- Sixie is a noun.
- What is the plural of sixie?
- The plural of sixie is sixies.
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