Why, little one, you must be cracked, if you flunk out before we begin.—J.C. Neal.
It was formerly used in some American colleges as is now the word flunk.
We must have, at least, as many subscribers as there are students in College, or "flunk out."—The Crayon, Yale Coll., 1823, p. 3.
FLUNKEY. In college parlance, one who makes a complete failure at recitation; one who flunks.
I bore him safe through Horace, Saved him from the flunkey's doom. Yale Lit. Mag., Vol. XX. p. 76.
FLUNKING. Failing completely in reciting.
Flunking so gloomily,
Crushed by contumely.
Yale Lit. Mag., Vol. XIII. p. 322.
We made our earliest call while the man first called up in the division-room was deliberately and gracefully "flunking."—Ibid., Vol. XIV. p. 190.
See what a spot a flunking Soph'more made!
Yale Gallinipper, Nov. 1848.
FLUNKOLOGY. A farcical word, designed to express the science of flunking.