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

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 216. Jubilee—Any time when there was nothing to do, either in the way of lessons or fagging.

June (Eton).—See Fourth of June.

Jungle, The (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—The Seminary wood.

1889. Stonyhurst Mag., iii. 347. The welcome shade of what was facetiously called THE JUNGLE.

Junior, subs. (Winchester).—All Inferiors except the seven Candlekeepers (q.v.) and Senior Inferior.

Adj. (Winchester).—Applied to all comparable objects. Of two neighbouring trees, the bigger is the “senior”: there are a “senior” and a “JUNIOR” end to a table, a room, &c. Tight junior = lowest of all.

1891. Wrench, Winchester Word-Book, s.v. Junior.... At about the end of the fifteenth century senior and JUNIOR superseded major and minor, before which the two sets of words seem to have been used concurrently.

Junior Hall (Shrewsbury).—See Senior Hall.

Junior Soph. See Soph.

Junket! intj. (Winchester).—An exclamation of self-congratulation: e.g. “JUNKET” I’ve got a “remi.” Hence to JUNKET OVER = to exult over. [Junketing = a merry-making.]