Adj. (Winchester) = stale; ordinary; vapid; common. Whence TUGS = stale news; TUG-CLOTHES = everyday clothes; TUG-JAW = wearisome talk.
Tui, subs. (Winchester).—Tuition.
Tumbies, subs. (University).—Ablutions.
Tund, verb (Winchester).—To thrash. Whence TUNDING = a thrashing. [Lat. tundere.]
1881. Pascoe, Everyday Life in Our Public Schools.... I never heard of any case in Eton like the TUNDING which, some years ago, brought our mother-school into disagreeable notice.
1883. Trollope, What I Remember.... It was the prefect of hall who ordered the infliction of a public TUNDING.... The following simple and truthful statement of what a public TUNDING was may enable those who take an interest in the matter to form some reasonable opinion whether the infliction of such punishment were a good or a bad thing.... Some dozen or so of boys, who had the best capacities for the performance, were appointed by him for the purpose, and the whole assembly stood around the daïs, while the hymn Te de profundis was sung. When all were thus assembled, and before the singers commenced, the culprit who had been sentenced to a TUNDING stepped out, pulled off his gown, and received from the hands of one deputed by the “prefect of hall,” and armed with a tough, pliant, ground-ash stick, a severe beating.
c. 1890. Punch [Confession by a Wykehamist]. I like to be TUNDED twice a day, And swished three times a week.
Turf, subs. 1. (Winchester).—The pitch: at cricket. The field is “long grass.”
2. (Felsted).—The cricket-field.
1881. Felstedian, Nov., p. 75. There are (or were) six cricket pitches on TURF.