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

1634. Marston, in Lectores, &c. [Nares]. Shall each odd PUISNE of the lawyer’s inne, Each barmy-froth, that last day did beginne, To read his little, or his nere a whit.

c. 1640 [Shirley], Captain Underwit [Bullen, Old Plays, ii. 340]. Preach to the PUISNES of the Inne sobrietie. [Puisne (i.e. PUNY) was the term applied to students at the Inns of Court; also to Freshmen at Oxford.—Bullen.]

1847. Halliwell, Arch. and Prov. Words, s.v. Punies. Freshmen at Oxford were called PUNIES for the first year.

Pupe, subs. (Harrow).—A pupil-room. [Room = class or form: each tutor is assigned a Room, for the members of which he is generally responsible, and for whom he signs orders.]

Puseum (The), subs. (Oxford).—The Pusey House in St. Giles’s Street.

Put. To be put on, verb. phr. (Dulwich).—To be told to construe.

Pux, verb (Royal High School, Edin.).—To punish with the tawse: e.g. “Did you get PUXED?”

Quad (or Quod), subs. (general).—A quadrangle.

1840. Collegian’s Guide, 144. His mother ... had been seen crossing the QUAD in tears.