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

John (Westminster).—See College John.

Johnian, subs. (Cambridge).—A student of St. John’s College: also JOHNIAN PIG or Hog—see Hog. Also as adj.: e.g. JOHNIAN blazer, JOHNIAN melody, &c.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Hog ... Johnian hogs, an appellation given to the members of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

1829. Praed, Poems, “The Vicar.” Sit in the Vicar’s seat: you’ll hear The doctrine of a gentle JOHNIAN.

1841. Westminster Review, xxxv. 236. The JOHNIANS are always known as pigs. They put up a new organ the other day which was immediately christened “Baconi Novum Organum.”

Joram, subs. (Winchester).—A tin beer-can, used in Commoners; a quart pot. [Var. dial. = a large dish or jug.] In College a Bob (q.v.) was used.

Jordan (Eton).—See Playing-fields.

Jossop, subs. (general).—Syrup; juice; gravy; sauce.

Jubilee, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—A pleasant time: e.g. The town was all in a JUBILEE of feasts.—Dryden.

1772. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic and Satyrical, p. 192. Day by day, and night by night, Joyful JUBILEES we keep.