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Public School Slang 122: muck3. (Westminster, c. 1900), to idle, waste time. 4. muck about, muck round: the more recent adn widely used equivalent of (3) .at muck about, v.
Public School Slang 122: muck3. (Westminster, c. 1900), to idle, waste time. 4. muck about, muck round: the more recent adn widely used equivalent of (3) . Public School Slang 163: To cock (1702) or more usually today to pull a snook ( =nose), to make a gesture of derision by applying the thumb to the nose and extending the fingers [...] known also ( [...] as taking a sight, working the coffee-mill, taking a grinder, pulling bacon, making a long nose and making Queen Anne’s fan.at make Queen Ann’s fan (v.) under Queen Anne’s fan, n.
Public School Slang 31: chaw (Harrow, 1887. and many other schools during the nineteenth century) adj.chawish: supposedly an abbreviation of chawbacon (=country bumpkin).at chaw-bacon, n.
Public School Slang 163: To cock (1702) or more usually today to pull a snook ( =nose), to make a gesture of derision by applying the thumb to the nose and extending the fingers [...] known also ( [...] as taking a sight, working the coffee-mill, taking a grinder, pulling bacon, making a long nose and making Queen Anne’s fan.at pull bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
Public School Slang 8: beaver, beard, or bearded man. The word owes its origin to a game popular at Oxford soon after the last war.
Players had to watch for men wearing beards (of whom there were perhaps more in Oxford than elsewhere), and whoever first cried ‘Beaver’ on seeing a bearded man scored one point.at beaver, n.1
Public School Slang 12: bevers [...] light refreshment consisting of bread and cheese with beer was served at what is now tea-time.at bever, n.
Public School Slang 15: blah blah (Rugby, 1926+), elsewhere commonly blah-blah, from blasé applied to affected speech and behaviour.at blah, adj.
Public School Slang 16: blood, buck, swell. These three words, all used in standard English of the same type of young man [...] are also synonymous in school slang, where they denote boys who are prominent among their fellows generally through athletic prowess.at blood, n.1
Public School Slang 16: blotch(Harrow, 1887): blotting paper.at blotch, n.
Public School Slang 65: Milke [was] sky-blue because of its colour, due to a liberal admixture of water.at sky blue, n.
(ref. to mid-late 19C) Public School Slang 96: A boy may no longer refer to his tile or his go-to-meeting roof (=best hat), like the characters in ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays,’ nor yet to boilers and chimney-pots, like those in ‘The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s’.at boiler, n.1
Public School Slang 8: Stealing or appropriating [...] bone.at bone, v.1
Public School Slang 105: KICK: boot, hack (Christ’s Hospital, 1905+), hoof (Forest, 1920+), punt (Malvern, 1902+) [...] root (St Lawrence’s, 1919+; Stonyhurst, 1920 +, etc.), [...] toe (Colston’s, 1887), turf (Harrow, 1906+).at boot, v.1
Public School Slang 21: bottle (Sherborne). More or less equivalent to floor — e.g. ‘I’ll get bottled in every paper,’ ‘I must do enough work to avoid getting bottled’.at bottle, v.1
Public School Slang 39: Impudence [...] bounce.at bounce, n.1
Public School Slang 39: Impudent [...] brassy.at brassy, adj.
Public School Slang 69: To these [i.e. words with an -er suffix] may perhaps be added brekker (=breakfast; generally regarded as an Oxford expression) and topper ( =top-hat).at brekker, n.
Public School Slang 4: brick. The word [is used] to express high approval of an individual person — e.g. ‘You are a brick’ (earliest date 1840, ‘a regular brick’): characteristic nineteenth century phrases were ‘a jolly brick’ and ‘no end of a brick'.at brick, n.
Public School Slang 133: The young ’un was once the correct designation for a young brother, but the modern equivalent is possibly my bro.at bro, n.1
Public School Slang 15: Few slang expressions are used of birching as distinct from caning (seecake), but the following may be noted: brush.at brush, v.2
Public School Slang 16: blood, buck, swell. These three words, all used in standard English of the same type of young man [...] are also synonymous in school slang, where they denote boys who are prominent among their fellows generally through athletic prowess.at buck, n.1
Public School Slang 120: MONEY: [...] 5/-: bull.at bull, n.3
Public School Slang 120: MONEY: [...] 2/6: half-bull.at half-a-bull (n.) under bull, n.3
Public School Slang 39: Impudent [...] bumptious.at bumptious, adj.
Public School Slang 30: cad. [...] 1. a townsman, 2. anyone with bad manners, uncouth speech, or deceitful character.at cad, n.1
Public School Slang 40: cheese. Five distinct school slang uses of this somewhat puzzling word are recorded: (1) Cheese it=Stop it; first recorded 1811.at cheese it!, excl.
Public School Sl. 40: Cheese [...] to smile or grin (Oundle 1920+).at cheese, v.3
(ref. to mid-late 19C) Public School Slang 96: A boy may no longer refer to his tile or his go-to-meeting roof (=best hat), like the characters in ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays,’ nor yet to boilers and chimney-pots, like those in ‘The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s’.at chimney-pot (hat) (n.) under chimney, n.
Public School Slang 23: Bread [...] chuck [...] perhaps akin to chock, chunk.at chuck, n.3
Public School Slang 96: HEAD: Of the forty-two slang synonyms for head listed by Farmer, only block, chump, napper, nob and nut are associated with schools.at chump, n.
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