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

Cad, subs. (general).—A non-school or non-University man: in contempt. At Cambridge SNOB, the word Thackeray used, has long been a common term for a townsman; now the undergrad. says Townee or Towner (q.v.). The German analogue is Philister.

1831. Hone, Year-Book, 670. Preceded by one or two bands of music in two boats, rowed by CADS.

1856. Bradley (“Cuthbert Bede”), Adventures of Verdant Green, i. p. 117. And I can chaff a CAD.

1860. Macmillan’s Mag., March, p. 327. You don’t think a gentleman can lick a CAD, unless he is the biggest and strongest of the two.

1873. Saturday Review, September, p. 305. At Oxford the population of the University and city is divided into “Dons, men, and CADS.”

Café, The (The Leys).—Head’s House Hall for meals.

Cake, subs. (Christ’s Hospital).—A stroke with a cane. Also as verb.

1844. Reminis. of Christ’s Hospital [The Blue, Aug. 1874]. The mildest punishment consisted of caning on the open hand (ironically termed CAKES).

Caker, subs. (The Leys).—A bicycle. [Originally “boneshaker”; whence “shaker” and “CAKER.”]

Calk, verb (Eton).—To throw. See Appendix, s.v. Cork.