Stinks, subs. (general).—Chemistry. Also as a nickname for a lecturer thereon.
Stizzle, verb (Tonbridge).—To cane.
Stodge, subs. (Charterhouse).—The inside of a roll; the crumb of new bread.
Verb (Tonbridge).—To hurt.
Stodger, subs. (Charterhouse and Tonbridge).—A penny bun.
Stone (The), subs. (Christ’s Hospital: obsolete).—The Steward’s table in Hall. To go to the stone = to go up for trial, judgment, and sentence for misconduct.
1844. Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital [The Blue, Aug. 1874]. With respect to misconduct out of school hours, the several monitors were the police, and the Steward the sole judge. When first appointed, the young monitors displayed excessive zeal in the discovery of delinquencies, and would call out with as much severity as it was possible to throw into the voice of a youth of fourteen, “Go to THE STONE, you, sir!” “The stone” was the name given to the Steward’s table in the Hall, where offenders were tried, judgment delivered, and sentence carried out, immediately after meals. The mildest punishment consisted of caning on the open hand (ironically termed “cakes”), and next in severity was flogging with the birch (called “brushing”); and Fate, with a grim sense of humour which we failed to appreciate at the time, decreed that the head beadle in our time, who was appointed to administer the said brushings and cakes, should bear the appropriate name of Honey.
Stonyhurst-cricket (or Football). See Appendix.
Stop. To stop out, verb. phr. (Harrow and Charterhouse).—To absent oneself from school: at Harrow, through indisposition.
Stopping-up, subs. (Stonyhurst).—An extra time of study allowed to elder boys when the rest have gone to bed: e.g. “I am going to STOPPING-UP to-night.”