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

1630. Wadsworth [Wrench]. They made him oft-times go on foot, whilst they rode about JUNKETTING in his coach.

d. 1745. Swift, Works. Whatever good bits you can pilfer in the day, save them to JUNKET with your fellow-servants at night.

Keelie, subs. (Royal High School, Edin.: obsolete).—A town boy. Now = “cad.”

Keep. To KEEP CHAPEL, verb. phr. (University).—See quot. 1852.

1850. Household Words, ii. p. 161. “As you have failed to make up your number of chapels the last two weeks,” such were the very words of the Dean, “you will, if you please, KEEP every CHAPEL till the end of the term.”

1852. Bristed, Five Years, &c., 32. The undergraduate is expected to go to chapel eight times, or, in academic parlance, to KEEP eight CHAPELS a week.

To keep cave, verb. phr. (Eton).—To watch and give warning on a tutor’s approach.

1883. Brinsley Richards, Seven Years at Eton, ch. iv. Another had to mount guard in the passage, or on the staircase, TO KEEP cave.

Kick. To kick over, verb. phr. (Winchester).—To kick a ball up in the air, when it is rolling along, or lying on the ground: considered very bad play.—Mansfield (c. 1840). Ibid., 217. Kick-in.—In a game at football the bounds on each side were kept by a line of Juniors, whose duty it was to KICK the ball IN again whenever it passed outside the line. See Kicking-in.