1867. Collins, The Public Schools, p. 24. Tuesdays and Thursdays were partial holidays, on which the boys went out to the HILLS twice; once in the morning, returning at nine to breakfast, and again in the afternoon, coming off at three. There they played at quoits, football, and something which seems to have borne a resemblance to cricket.
2. (Cambridge).—The Gogmagog Hills; a common morning’s ride.—Gradus ad Cantab.
Hiss (The), subs. (Winchester).—The signal given at the commencement of school hours when a Master was coming in.—Mansfield (c. 1840).
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester [1866], 104. Just before school-time a boy was always stationed to watch the arrival of the Master, of which he had to give notice by emitting a loud HISS, upon which there was a general rush up to books; the previous uproar dwindled to a calm, and work began.
Hivite, subs. (St. Bees’).—A student of St. Bees’ (Cumberland).
1865. John Bull, Nov. 11. To be a HIVITE has long been considered a little worse than a “literate.”... Of the value of some St. Bees’ testimonials we may form an estimate, &c.
Hobbs, subs. (Tonbridge).—A fad; a mental eccentricity. See Tachs.
Hobby, subs. (common).—A translation. To RIDE HOBBIES = to use CRIBS (q.v.).
Hockey-sticks and Fourpennies, subs. phr. (Charterhouse).—A kind of irregular cricket played at Old Charterhouse. The bats were huge bludgeons called hockey-sticks, but without any curve at the end; the balls were like large fives-balls, and a little smaller than a regulation cricket-ball; the wickets were usually coats or jackets; gownboy jackets were much the best, because they were stiff and easily stood upright; the pitch was either on the football ground, where there was no grass, or on a flagged pavement in cloisters.
Hodgsonites (Charterhouse).—See Out-houses.