Grovel, subs. (Sherborne).—A scrummage at football.
Grubber, subs. (general).—A tuck-shop. See Lamb’s-tails, Round Othellos, Kill-me-quicks, and Picaninnies.
1899. Public School Mag., Dec., p. 441. The shop is privately managed by Mr. Kimmins, of High Street, Tonbridge [and] is known as “GRUBBER.”
Grubby, subs. (Royal High School, Edin.).—The luncheon room.
Gruff, adj. (Christ’s Hospital).—Low-pitched: of the voice. See quot., and Squeaky.
c. 1844. Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital [The Blue, Aug. 1874]. The voices, in our own peculiar phraseology, being divided into two classes—those who sang “squeaky,” and those who sang GRUFF.
Guarder, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A goal-keeper: at football. Whence SECOND-GUARDER = the “full-back” of Association Football; and THIRD-GUARDER = the “halfback” of Association Football.
Gulf, subs. (Cambridge).—The bottom of a list of “passes,” with the names of those who only just succeed in getting their degree. At Oxford a man who, going in for honours, only gets a pass. Hence as verb (Cambridge) = to place in the GULF; TO BE GULFED = to be on such a list. [Men so placed were not eligible for the Classical Tripos.]
1852. Bristed, Five Tears in an English University, p. 205. Some ten or fifteen men just on the line, not bad enough to be plucked, or good enough to be placed, are put into the GULF, as it is popularly called (the examiners’ phrase is “degrees allowed”), and have their degrees given them, but are not printed in the calendar. Ibid., 297. I discovered that my name was nowhere to be found—that I was GULFED.
1853. Bradley, Verdant Green, pt. III. p. 89. I am not going to let them GULPH me a second time.