randle, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

randle n.

[the verses varied as to area. In Cumberland: ‘The offender is seized by the ear or by the back hair, whilst the following is repeated “Rannel me! Rannel me! Grey goose egg/Let every man lift up a leg./By the hee (high) by the low, by the buttocks of a crow; Fish, cock or hen.” If “cock” was the reply then the other said, “Hit him a good knock” and did so. If “fish” was the answer, the other said, “Spit in his face”. (EDD)]

a set of nonsense verses that a schoolchild was forced to recite, to the accompaniment of pinching, hair-pulling and similar juvenile tortures, if they were caught breaking wind in public; thus randling, punishing a child in this way; randle, to punish with a randle.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Randle A set of nonsensical verses, repeated in Ireland by schoolboys, and young people, who have been guilty of breaking wind backwards before any of their companions; if they neglect this apology, they are liable to certain kicks, pinches, and fillips, which are accompanied with divers admonitory couplets.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1847–81		Halliwell Dict. Archaic and Provincial Words II 666/2: randle to punish a schoolboy for an indelicate but harmless offence.
1879		T. Satchell in N&Q Ser. 5 XI 405: From the evidence given in a case before the police magistrate at Birkenhead, it appeared that when any apprentice, at the Britannia Works in that town, remains at work, while the others have decided on taking a holiday, he is punished by a process known as randling. He is surrounded by his companions, who seize him by the hair and pull it at intervals until his scruples are overcome [F&H].
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