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

Substance, subs. (Westminster).—See Shadow.

Suck, subs. (University).—A parasite; a toady.

Suction, subs. (Winchester).—Sweetmeats.

Sudden-death, subs. (University).—A crumpet.

Sum, intj. (Winchester).—The response at names-calling; ADSUM (q.v.).

Summer Quarter, subs. (Charterhouse).—See Long Quarter.

Superann, subs. (Charterhouse).—Superannuate.

Superannuate, subs. (Winchester).—See quot.

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 237. Superannuate.—A boy who was obliged to leave at Election, owing to his being past eighteen years of age. Founders (q.v.) were not SUPERANNUATE till they were twenty-five.

Surly Hall (Eton).—A public-house on the right bank of the Thames, some three and a half miles from Windsor. See Fourth of June.