Definition of "passman" []

• One who passes a university degree, but without honours. (noun)

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• "He needs now in fact less repression than encouragement not to be a "passman," as he may if he likes, acquiescing in a lowly measure of culture which certainly will not manufacture Miltons, nor turn serge into silk, broom-blossom into verbenas, but only, perhaps not so faultily, leave Emerald Uthwart and the like of him [227] essentially what they are."
• ""passman", who does not aspire to honours, has to pass (1) the"
• "He could hear several feet clumping along the polished tiles (buffed without love by the infirmary passman; you always save your best for the cell), and looked up to see a party of three come through the door: a prisoner and two screws."