Definition of "bursch" [bursch]

• A youth; especially, a student in a german university. (noun)

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• "These young men (together with the students of sciences) comport themselves towards the sober citizen pretty much as the German bursch towards the philister, or as the military man, during the empire, did to the pékin: — from the height of their poverty they look down upon him with the greatest imaginable scorn — a scorn, I think, by which the citizen seems dazzled, for his respect for the arts is intense."
• ""Because you still make your own dresses and teach dancing," replied the pupil, with a quick sigh at the thought of some smart bursch in the Prussian contingent."
• "I have kept my feet in Jena, when each bursch to earth declined;"