校こう僕ぼく

noun

student worker at a school; live-in student helper

Historical term for a student who both studied and performed work at the school, often in exchange for tuition or board. Rare in modern usage.

• 明めい治じ時じ代だいには、校こう僕ぼくとして学がっ校こうに住すみ込こみで働はたらく生せい徒とがいた。

  In the Meiji era, there were students who lived and worked at the school as 校僕.