The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

2. (common).—To advance the hand unfairly at marbles.

Fug, subs. (Harrow).—1. A small soft football. Also (2) the game as played with such a ball in a yard, house, &c. See Appendix.

Verb. 1. (Shrewsbury).—To stay in a stuffy room.

2. (Harrow).—To stop indoors.

Fug-footer, subs. (Harrow).—A species of football played in passages with a FUG (q.v.) See ante.

Fuggy, subs. (general).—A hot roll.

Adj. (Shrewsbury).—Stuffy.

Fug-shop, subs. (Charterhouse).—The carpenter’s shop.

Functior (or Functure), subs. (Winchester).—An iron bracket candlestick, used for the night-light in College Chambers.

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester, p. 68. Beside the window yawned the great fireplace, with its dogs, on which rested the faggots and bars for the reception of the array of boilers. Above it was a rushlight, fixed in a circular iron pan fastened to a staple in the wall; it was called the FUNCTIOR.