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The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

Name: The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities
Author: Farmer, John Stephen, 1854-1916

作者：Farmer, John Stephen, 1854-1916
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THE
PUBLIC SCHOOL WORD-BOOK
A CONTRIBUTION TO
PECULIAR TO
OUR GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BY
JOHN S. FARMER
PREFACE
SPECIAL NOTICE
2. (Oxford).—BEDDER = a bedroom.
1878. ADAMS, _Wykehamica_, 417, _s.v._
2. (Harrow).—To knock about; to damage.
2. (Christ’s Hospital).—A flogging.
2. (Felsted).—Fine; jolly.
2. (Westminster).—To exert oneself.
3. (Harrow).—To play hard; to hurry.
2. (Cambridge: obsolete).—A Fellow of Trinity College.
1803. _Gradus ad_ CANTAB. (Title.)
2. _See_ RABBIT-SKIN.
2. _See_ quot. 1891.
2. A BLUE (_q.v._); especially an “old boy.”
2. (Harrow).—A room shared by one other. _See_ SINGLE.
2. (Felsted).—A school matron.
2. (Felsted).—_See_ TIP.
2. (Christ’s Hospital).—_See_ quot.
3. (Stonyhurst).—A fielder: at cricket. Also FAGGER.
4. (Stonyhurst).—A bore.
2. (Harrow).—_See_ LICK.
3. (Eton).—_See_ WALL.
2. (common).—To advance the hand unfairly at marbles.
2. (Harrow).—To stop indoors.
2. (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL.
2. (Sherborne).—Evening preparation.
3. (Shrewsbury).—_See_ SENIOR HALL.
2. (Felsted).—Money: specifically “coppers.”
1856. HALL, _College Words and Phrases_, p. 270, _s.v._
2. (Harrow).—The electric light.
2. To appoint Præfect.
2. (Eton).—_See_ PLAYING-FIELDS.
2. (Winchester).—_See_ quot.
2. (Felsted).—A place of preparation.
2. A jollification.
2. (Stonyhurst).—The Head-master. _See_ DAY.
2. (Winchester).—REMISSION (_q.v._).
2. (Winchester).—A medium-sized stone.
2. (general).—To RUSTICATE (_q.v._).
2. (Winchester).—_See_ HILLS.
2. (Winchester).—Weak tea.
2. (Rugby).—To go on the sick-list.
2. (Harrow).—Supper.
2. (Felsted).—A foolish mistake in translating, &c.
2. (general).—A college cap; a MORTAR-BOARD (_q.v._).
2. (Felsted).—The cricket-field.
2. (Marlborough).—To chastise.
2. (Stonyhurst).—The twelve first Stonyhurst boys.
2. (Royal Military Academy).—A sardine.
APPENDIX
2. (Harrow).—To go round quietly.
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