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In Cap and Gown choose

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[UK] Mr Marsell in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 85: Oer the poor country curate that’s near / Their eyes (in fine language called killers).
at killers, n.
[UK] R. Porson ‘Imitation of Horace’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 67: You know I never was a blab.
at blab, n.
[UK] R. Porson ‘Imitation of Horace’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 67: What! Is it she? The filthy frow!
at froe, n.1
[UK] R. Porson ‘Imitation of Horace’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 61: While on board as sick as hell, / At shore, old girl, I wish you well.
at as hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[UK] R. Porson ‘Imitation of Horace’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 67: What wench’s eyes / Gave him the wound, of which he dies.
at wench, n.
[UK] R. Porson ‘On the Play of Pizarro’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 75: Four acts are tol-lol — but the fifth’s my delight.
at tol-lol, adj.
[UK] ‘Characters of Freshmen’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 176: He goeth to a small bitch-party.
at bitch party (n.) under bitch, n.1
[UK] ‘Characters of Freshmen’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 179: He rejoiceth in surmounting his brain-pan with a very small piece of cap.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[UK] ‘Characters of Freshmen’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 176: The Flat Freshman [...] putteth his cap on the wrong way.
at flat, adj.1
[UK] ‘Characters of Freshmen’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 170: So many of the men I know / Were ‘flummoxed’ at the last great-go.
at flummoxed, adj.2
[UK] ‘Characters of Freshmen’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 183: He asketh a huge snob ‘what the deuce he meant by that?’ Whereat the snob (having done nothing at all) coolly answereth [...] ‘Hooky Walker’, provocative of a combat.
at hookey (walker)!, excl.
[UK] in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 173: Sophs and Freshmen fill my place.
at soph, n.
[UK] ‘Characters of Freshmen’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 179: There is enough wood already in the upper works.
at upper storey (n.) under upper, adj.
[UK] Taylor & Vansittart ‘The Two Voices’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 235: Thy senses thou dost oversteep / In cram, nor any limit keep; / Thou canst not read, but thou must sleep!
at cram, n.
[UK] Savile ‘The Snobiad and Gown Row in Cambridge’ in Whibley In Cap and Gown (1889) 145: Oh, curse the mongrel, he’s not worth a groat!
at mongrel, n.
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