sixie

English

Etymology

six +‎ -ie, in reference to their six years until graduation.

Noun

sixie (plural sixies)

1. (education) A seventh-grader at Boston Latin School.
   • 1999, Marge Piercy, Three Women:

     Elena went on to Boston Latin alone, and Genette got into a crowd in her middle school. Even though Elena was in seventh grade, at Boston Latin she was called a sixie, and they were the bottom of the heap.

   • 2006, John Powers, The Boston Handbook, page 94:

     We can hum the "1812 Overture" (complete with howitzer) from memory, we've got streets named after Mendelssohn and Liszt, and we knew Lenny Bernstein when he was a sixie at Latin.

   • 2017, Matthew J. Fraser, Critical Infrastructure for Children, page 6:

     I'm particularly aware of Boston State because when I was a sixie (seventh grader) at Boston Latin in the Fall of 1983, the sign on the building of the old Boston State was around the corner from BLS.