Samson, subs. (Durham: obsolete).—A baked jam pudding.
Sanderites (Charterhouse).—The head-master’s house. [Dr. Sanders was head-master 1832-53.]
Sands, subs. (Winchester).—The pavement on the north side of Chapel in Chamber Court.
Sandwich-boat. See Bumping-race.
Sap, subs. (common).—A hard worker; a diligent student.
1827. Lytton, Pelham, ch. ii. When I once attempted to read Pope’s poems out of school hours, I was laughed at, and called a SAP.
1850. Smedley, Frank Fairlegh, 117. After several fruitless attempts to shake my determination, they pronounced me an incorrigible SAP, and leaving me to my own devices, proceeded to try their powers upon Oaklands.
1856. Whyte-Melville, Kate Coventry, ch. xvii. At school, if he makes an effort at distinction in school-hours, he is stigmatised by his comrades as a SAP.
1888. Goschen, Speech at Aberdeen, Jan. 31. Remember the many epithets applied to those who, not content with doing their work, commit the heinous offence of being absorbed in it ... schools and colleges ... have invented for this purpose, with that peculiar felicity which attaches to schoolboy nomenclature, phrases, semi-classical, or wholly vernacular, such as a “SAP,” a “smug,” a “swot,” a “bloke,” a “mugster.”
Verb. To read or study hard; to sweat.