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

Thoker, subs. (Winchester).—A thick slice of bread soaked in water and then baked.

Thos’s-hole, subs. (Rugby). See quot.

1856. Hughes, Tom Brown’s School-days, vii. And so Tom and the Tadpole, in night-shirts and trousers, started off downstairs, and through “THOS’S-HOLE,” as the little buttery, where candles and beer and bread and cheese were served out at night, was called, across the School-house court.

1867. Collins, The Public Schools, 367. “Thos” [Thomas Woobridge] the well-remembered old school-house servitor, being mounted on the leading horse.

Three. Come back at three, phr. (Royal High School, Edin.).—The formula to signify detention after school hours.

Threepenny, subs. (general).—A tuck-shop cake of that value.

Throw, verb (University).—To master; to succeed: as in a paper, lesson, examination, examiner, &c.

1891. Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 98. These blessed exams. are getting awfully close now, but I think I shall floor mine, and Dick’s sure to THROW his examiners down.

Tight, adj. (Winchester).—Fast; hard.

1891. Wrench, Winchester Word-Book, s.v. Tight.... A TIGHT bowler, &c. As superlative adverb now only used in TIGHT junior. Tight-snob, TIGHT-rot, and other such uses are obsolete.