Yaleman

English

Etymology

From Yale +‎ -man.

Noun

Yaleman (plural Yalemen)

1. A man who attends or graduated from Yale University
   • 1955, William Gordon Leary, James Steel Smith, Thought and Statement, page 158:

     “The average Yaleman, Class of '24,” Time magazine reported last year after reading something in the New York Sun, a newspaper published in those days, “makes $25,111 a year.”

   • 1987, Vince Clemente, John Ciardi: Measure of the Man, page 197:

     My graduate dean, himself a Yaleman, accepted without hesitation the primacy of the other boy's claim and the priority of his announcement.

   • 1987, Robert Vickrey, The Affable Curmudgeon, page 9:

     “Where did you go to college?” “I'm a Yaleman,” I said.

Anagrams

• Almayne, yelaman