Whence TRAV-HOTS = travelling money.
1893. _Felstedian_, Mar., p. 20. I made two brackets in the workshop,
they liked them awfully; I meant to get them something decent, but I
hadn’t got any HOTS.
1893. _Felstedian_, July, p. 82. All right; it’s only a HOT. Did you
hear what we did in our dormy last night?
1895. _Felstedian_, April, p. 44. HOTS—“Hots” and “half-hots” very
evidently “burn a hole in one’s pocket” if they are left there long
enough.
*Hot-tiger*, _subs._ (Oxford: obsolete).—Hot-spiced ale and
sherry.
*Hound*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—_See_ quot.
1879. E. WALFORD, in _Notes and Queries_, 5 S., xii. 88. In the
_Anecdotes of Bowyer_ ... we are told that a HOUND of King’s College,
Cambridge, is an undergraduate not on the foundation, nearly the same
as a “sizar.”
*House-captain*, _subs._ (The Leys).—A boy, not in studies,
responsible for order in House-room.
*House-game*, _subs._ (Harrow).—A game—football or cricket—in
which the whole House play.
*House-list*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The printed list, in BILL
(_q.v._) order, of each House.
*House-room*, _subs._ (The Leys).—The Common Room of boys below
VI^{th} who have no studies.
*House-singing*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An informal concert at which
school songs are sung collectively: held once a fortnight
except in summer.
*House-washing*, _subs._ (Rugby: obsolete).—A sort of compressed
paper-chase, backwards and forwards in a short distance over
Clifton Brook, a tributary of the Warwickshire Avon. [The
name suggests that this was not a dry process; each House as
a rule had a HOUSE-WASHING in the Easter term.]
*Housey*, _adj._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Belonging or peculiar to
the Hospital. The reverse of TOWNEY = of the town.
*Housle*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To hustle. [Dial.: _cf._ doust =
dust; fousty = fusty; rousty = rusty, &c.]
*Huff*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Strong ale brewed by the College.
[A survival: also HUFF-CAP.]
1579. FULWELL, _Art of Flattery_. Commonly called HUFCAP, it will make
a man look as though he had seene the devil.
1586. HOLINSHED, _Description of England_. These men hale at HUFF-CAP
till they be red as cockes, and little wiser than their combes.
1602. CAMPION, _English Poesy_ (BULLEN, _Works_, 1889, p. 247). Hunks
detests when HUFFCAP ale he tipples.
1614. GREENE, _Looking-Glass_ [DYCE], p. 127. The ale is strong ale,
’tis HUFCAP; I warrant you, ’twill make a man well.
1640. TAYLOR, _Works._ And this is it, of ale-houses and innes,
Wine-marchants, vintners, brewers, who much wins By others losing, I
say more or lesse, Who sale of HUFCAP liquor doe professe.
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 180. Washed down by libations
of HUFF.
1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, s.v. HUFF, the strong ale brewed by the
College.
*Hum*, _verb_ (Derby).—To smell.
*Hundred* (The), _subs._ 1. (Loretto).—A long straight walk
within the school grounds.
2. (Tonbridge: obsolete).—One of the lower football grounds.
There were Upper, Middle, Lower, Fourth, and Fifth Hundreds.
_See_ FIFTY.
*Husky*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—_See_ quot.
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 145. There were two kinds
[Gooseberry fool] HUSKY and non-husky.
*Ick.* _See_ ACK.
*Iliad*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—The regular penalty for late
attendance at chapel and other minor offences.
*Imperator*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A name given to the two first
boys in each class.
*Impo*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An imposition.
*Impositor*, _subs._ (Sherborne: obsolete).—A school Præfect:
sixteenth century.
*Inferior*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Any member of the school not a
PRÆFECT (_q.v._).
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life_, p. 28. The Præfect of Hall ...
was looked upon by the INFERIORS with something more than a becoming
awe and reverence.
*Inform*, _verb_ (Charterhouse).—To sneak; to show up.
*Infra-dig*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Scornful; proud: _e.g._ “He
sported INFRA-DIG duck,” or “I am INFRA-DIG to it.”
*Island, The* (Rugby).—A mound or “tumulus” in the Close.
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 372. They [the school
volunteer corps] had not only parades, but sham fights—if a fight
could be called a sham from which the combatants retired with broken
heads and bloody noses—attacking and defending the Doctor’s farmyard
on the little ISLAND between what were then the two Closes.
*Isthmus-of-Suez*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—The bridge at St. John’s
College, Cambridge, leading from the grounds to one of the
Courts, familiarly known as the “Bridge of Sighs.” Also THE
BRIDGE OF GRUNTS. [From its slight similarity to the
Venetian example. _Sues_ = swine, in punning reference to
the JOHNIAN HOGS (_q.v._).] _See_ CRACKLE and HOG.
1857. _Punch_, June 20. A resident Fellowe he was, I wis, He had no
cure of Soules; And across ye BRIDGE OF SUES he’d come From playinge
ye game of bowles.
1885. CUTHBERT BEDE, in _N. and Q._, 6 S., xi. 414. Another word is
_Sues_, for swine. This is applied to the bridge leading from the old
courts to the new, familiarly known as the BRIDGE OF SIGHS from its
slight similarity to the Venetian example, but also known as the
ISTHMUS OF SUEZ. This word _Suez_ was then transformed to _Suez_,
swine, to adapt it to its Johnian frequenters.
*Jack.* _See_ BLACK-JACK.
*Jackdaw*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—Hertford for a London
BLUE (_q.v._): obsolete.
_c._ 1800-29. _The Blue-Coat Boy_ [_More Gleanings from_ THE BLUE,
203]. Hertford boys called the London boys “JACKDAWS,” and those in
London called those at Hertford “Hedgehogs.”
*Jack-o’-Lantern*, _subs._ (Eton and Harrow: obsolete).—A
nocturnal form of “Hare and Hounds.”
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 312. But there was an ancient
form of it [“Hare and Hounds”] at Harrow, so especially attractive as
being pursued at unlawful hours and under unusual difficulties, that
it deserves special mention. It was known also in former days at Eton,
and in both schools went by the name of JACK O’ LANTERN. About seven
o’clock on winter evenings, when it was quite dark, the boys, by
sufferance on the part of the authorities, were let out from their
several boarding-houses into the fields below the school. A stout and
active runner started in advance, carrying a lantern, by the light of
which the rest pursued him in full cry. He showed or concealed his
light from time to time, and a great point of the sport was to entice
the hounds into some pool or muddy ditch (which “Jack” himself has
carefully avoided) by showing the light exactly in a line on the other
side.
1885. THORNTON, _Harrow School_, p. 276. JACK-O’-LANTERN was abolished
by Dr. George Butler, but re-appeared in Dr. Longley’s time as one of
those forbidden pleasures so dear to youth. Always played in the
evening, and originally by sufferance of the authorities, the game in
question was simply a run across country after a lantern carried by a
swift-footed boy. Oftentimes would the luckless hounds be enticed into
some slough of despond, and the performers return in a condition of
mud which may find its equal on a wet football day or a paper-chase
forty years later, but yet present no adequate idea of the confusion
caused by the return from JACK-O’-LANTERN, of thirty or forty boys at
night when in ordinary clothes. It is one of the most distinct
evidences that no discipline existed when we read of such a proscribed
saturnalia having occurred after lock-up in Dr. Longley’s time. But
the fact has been communicated to us by Harrow men whose word is
indisputable.
*Jambi*, _subs._ (Harrow).—Greek Iambics; an exercise in the
Upper School.
*Janny*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—A janitor.
*Jark*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A safe-conduct pass; a JASKER. [_Cf._
JARK = a seal.]
1818. SCOTT, _Heart of Midlothian_, xxix. Stay, gentlemen, ... this is
a JARK from Jim Radcliffe.
*Jarrehoe*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A man-servant. _Cf._ GYP and
SCOUT.
*Jericho*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A low quarter of Oxford.
*Jesuit*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—A graduate or undergraduate of
Jesus College.
1771. SMOLLETT, _Humphrey Clinker_, To Sir W. Phillips, April 20.
Direct your next to me at Bath; and remember me to all our fellow
JESUITS.