A colloquial abbreviation of CANTABRIGIAN.
1750. Coventry, Pompey Litt., II. x. (1785), 68/1. The young Cantab … had come up to London.
1755. Gentl. Mag., XXV. 60/2. Upon gawdy, or exceeding days, as they are call’d by the Cantabs.
1807. Byron, To Miss Pigot, 5 July. Sad dogs all the Cantabs.
