1880. Brewer, Reader’s Handbook. Bull-dogs, the two servants of a university proctor, who follow him in his rounds, to assist him in apprehending students who are violating the university statutes, such as appearing in the streets after dinner without cap and gown, &c.
2. (Cambridge: obsolete).—A Fellow of Trinity College.
Bully, subs. (Eton).—A mellay at football: the equivalent of the Rugby SCRUMMAGE (q.v.), and the Winchester HOT (q.v.).
Bunker’s Hill (Stonyhurst).—A row of cottages outside Hodder grounds. Originally called Bankhurst, but after a battle here between the inhabitants and the new-comers a century ago, its present name was given to it. (See Stonyhurst Mag., ii. 92.)
Bum-brusher, subs. (general).—A schoolmaster; also an usher.
1704. T. Brown, Works (1760), ii. 86. [Dionysius] was forced to turn BUM-BRUSHER.
1788. New London Magazine, p. 137. A successor was immediately called from that great nursery of BUM-BRUSHERS, Appleby School.
1832. Blackwood’s Mag., Oct., p. 426. To protract existence ... in the shape of BUM-BRUSHERS, and so forth, after the fashion of the exalted emigrés of 1792.
1838. Comic Almanac, Dec. [Schoolmaster’s Letter signed] Barnabas Bom-brush.
Bum-curtain, subs. (Cambridge).—An academical gown—scant and short; especially applied to the short black gown worn till 1835 by members of Caius College.