subs. (venery).—1.  A prostitute’s bully; FANCY-MAN (q.v.): see PETTICOAT.—VAUX (1819).

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  1887.  A. BARRÈRE, Argot and Slang, 201. Prostitute’s bully, or ‘PENSIONER.’

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  2.  (university: Cambridge).—One who pays a ‘pensio’ or rent for rooms in College: at Oxford a COMMONER (q.v.).

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  1780.  W. L. MANSEL, The Cambridge Commencement, in C. WHIBLEY, ed. In Cap and Gown, p. 85.

        A Cambridge Commencement’s the time
  When gentlemen come for degrees;
And with wild-looking cousins and wives
  Through a smart mob of PENSIONERS squeeze.

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