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

Low-man, subs. (Cambridge).—A Junior Optimé as compared to a Senior Optimé or a Wrangler.

Luff, verb (Derby).—To hit out; to slog: as at cricket.

Lush, subs. (Eton).—A dainty.

Lux, subs. (Christ’s Hospital).—A good thing; a splendid thing: e.g. My knife is wooston a LUX. A Hertford word [? luxury]. Obsolete.

Luxer, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—A handsome fellow.

Mad, adj. (Winchester).—Angry; vexed. [Old English, now dial. in England, but universal in America. “Originally severely injured” (Skeat). “Enraged, furious” (Johnson).]

1369. Chaucer, Troilus [Skeat, 1894], line 479. Ne made him thus in armes for to MADDE.

1593. Shakspeare, Titus And., iii. 1. 104. Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would have MADDED me. Ibid., iii. 1. 223. If the winds rage doth not the sea wax MAD.

1596. Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, iv. 1. You’d MAD the patient’st body in the world.