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

3. (Harrow).—To play hard; to hurry.

Bucksome (or Buxom), adj. (Winchester).—Happy; cheerful.

Budder, subs. (Felsted: obsolete).—A hard worker; a SWOTTER. [From a proper name.]

Bug and Tick, subs. phr. (The Leys).—The Natural History Society. See Bug and Snail (Appendix).

Buissonites, subs. (Charterhouse).—Now called Bodeites (q.v.).

Bulky, adj. (Winchester).—(1) Rich; (2) generous.

Bull-dog, subs. 1. (University).—A proctor’s assistant or marshal.

1823. Lockhart, Reg. Dalton, I., x. (1842), 59. Long forgotten stories about proctors bit and BULL-DOGS baffled.

1841. Lytton, Night and Morning, bk. iii. chap. iii. The proctor and his BULL-DOGS came up ... and gave chase to the delinquents; ... the night was dark, and they reached the College in safety.

1847. Tennyson, Princess, Prologue. We unworthier told Of college; he had climb’d across the spikes, And he had squeezed himself betwixt the bars, And he had breath’d the Proctor’s DOGS.