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Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 261: Every one was determined the present number should
be an out-and-out good one, and laboured and racked his
brains accordingly.at out-and-out, adv.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 261: Every one was determined the present number should
be an out-and-out good one, and laboured and racked his
brains accordingly. Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 140: ‘Oliver was always a plodding old blockhead’.at blockhead, n.1
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 214: ‘I don’t mean to punish myself by getting in the blues’.at in the blues under blues, n.1
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 72: In the same desk were one or two books written by a man called Bohn; they seemed queer books, for they had Latin and Greek names outside, but all the reading inside was English.at bohn, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 110: The Fifth appeared next day in their ordinary ‘boilers,’ and the dignity of the monitors was vindicated.at boiler, n.1
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 316: ‘Shut up, you great booby’.at booby, n.1
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 149: ‘We licked the old Tadpoles in the match. (‘No you didn’t!’ ‘That’s a cram!’).at cram, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 184: The disorderly idlers [...] might not want to grind, but others did.at grind, v.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 187: Stephen [...] of course, was red-hot for the Fifth.at red-hot, adj.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 145: ‘I’m certain to come a howler over the Nighingale’ [i.e. a scholarship].at howler, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 123: ‘That’s the style,’ said Mr. Cripps, producing a bottle [of gingerbeer]. ‘Walk into that while I go and get the paper’.at walk into, v.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 148: [H]e had asked about twenty of his friends [...] whether that wouldn’t be ‘a showy lead-off for his cricket feast jaw?’.at jaw, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 13: ‘Fifty pounds a year for three years!’ exclaimed a small boy, with a half whistle. ‘I wouldn't mind getting that!’ ‘Well, why don't you, you avaricious young Jew?’ .at Jew, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 351: ‘Not the first Guinea-pig kick-up we've been witness to, either’.at kick-up, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 14: ‘He’ll do your sums and look over your exercises for you like one o'clock’.at like one o’clock (adv.) under like, adv.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 149: [W]hereat the speaker hurriedly quitted his seat and, amid howls and yells, proceeded to ‘pay out’ Spicer.at pay out (v.) under pay, v.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 32: ‘Wretched little sneak! [...] I suppose he’ll go peaching to his big brother’.at peach, v.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 36: ‘It’s hard lines at first. Keep your pecker up, young ‘un’.at keep one’s pecker up (v.) under pecker, n.2
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 291: ‘My people won’t be in a great rage if I turn up earlier than they expect’.at people, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 190: ‘It will be a regular sell if he comes to grief; the Fifth will be intolerable’.at sell, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 348: [T]he natural impulse had been equally as strong to suspect Oliver, and — well, that had somehow turned out a bad ‘spec’.at spec, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 350: ‘Bah! Do you think Greenfield senior would come to hear you spout’.at spout, v.1
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 52: ‘I say [...] we shall have a stunning paper’.at stunning, adj.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 110: One afternoon the entire Fourth Junior appeared in the corridors in their Sunday tiles! In their Sunday tiles they slid down the banisters; in their Sunday tiles they played leapfrog.at tile, n.
Fifth Form at St Dominic’s (1890) 216: ‘Don’t go and funk it, old man, or it’s all U P’.at u.p., adv.
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