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

Rorke (or Rawk), subs. (Tonbridge).—A navvy. [? Latin raucus. Cf. Rorker.]

Rorker, subs. (Derby).—A street boy; a cad. [? Latin raucus. Cf. Rorke.]

Rosh (or Roush), verb (Royal Military Academy).—To bustle; to horseplay. Hence STOP ROUSHING! = an injunction to silence.

Rotten. See Appendix.

Rotter, subs. (Tonbridge).—A boy who shirks his fair share: at games, &c.; a fainéant.

Rouge, subs. (Eton).—A point in the Eton game of football: 3 ROUGES = 1 goal. Cf. Scrouge.

Verb (Felsted).—To “rag”; to “scrag.” See subs.

1895. Felstedian, April, pp. 43-4. “Vic” ... entirely baffles me, and so does the expression TO ROUGE; but the fact that it occurs in the early numbers of the Felstedian—“we won the game by one goal, three ROUGES”—points to its origin.

Round-Othello, subs. (The Leys). A Leysian tuck-shop delicacy.

Roush, subs. (Winchester).—1. A rush, or charge: as by a man, a beast, or by water.