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

Stuckling, subs. (Winchester).—A kind of flat pastry made of the current year’s apples and dried currants.

1847. Halliwell, Archaic Words, s.v. Stuckling. An apple pasty, thin, somewhat half circular in shape, and not made in a dish.

1883. Trollope, What I Remember.... Stuckling was a kind of flat pastry made of chopped apples and currants. And the speciality of it was that the apples must be that year’s apples. They used to be sent up from Devonshire or Cornwall, and sometimes were with difficulty obtained.

1891. Wrench, Winchester Word-Book, s.v. Stuckling. A pudding at Election dinner, made of meat, apple, and carraway.

Study-place, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A study. Cf. Place.

Stuggy, adj. (general).—Thick-set. [Stuggy (Devon) = thick, stout.]

Stumper, subs. (Tonbridge).—Small cricket played with a stump.

Stumps, subs. (Harrow).—Cricket played with a stump and a soft ball.

Styx, subs. (The Leys).—A urinal. Cf. Hades.

Sub-minister, subs. (Stonyhurst).—The superior responsible for the health of the house. See Minister.