Cruggy, adj. (Christ’s Hospital).—Hungry. [From CRUG (q.v.).]
Crump, subs. (Winchester).—A hard hit; a fall. Also as verb.
Cud, adj. 1. (Winchester).—Pretty; handsome. [A suggested derivation is from κυδος; another is the A.S. cuð, the Scots couthie, and whence cuðle, to cuddle (a derivative of cuð), the meaning formerly given to a verbal usage of CUD at Winchester.]
2. (Christ’s Hospital).—Severe. Whence CUDDY = hard: difficult; said of a lesson. Also Hertfordicé for PASSY (q.v.). [There is a common hard biscuit called a “cuddy-biscuit” which doubtless has this derivation.] Obsolete.
Culminate, verb (University: obsolete).—To mount a coach-box.
1803. Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, s.v.
Cup-fag, subs. (Charterhouse).—A boy whose duty it is to place the challenge cups, should his House have any, in their cases each morning, and remove them to a safe place every night. He has also to keep them clean, and for neglect of any of these duties he is fined. He receives a quarterly payment for his services, and is exempt from other forms of fagging.
Curtain. Above the curtain, phr. (Westminster).—See quot.
1867. Collins, The Public Schools, p. 108. A curtain formerly was drawn across the school, dividing the upper forms from the lower. One day a boy was so unlucky as to tear it; and Busby’s known severity left no doubt of the punishment that would follow. The offender was in despair, when a generous schoolfellow volunteered to take the blame upon himself and suffered in his friend’s stead accordingly.... In three year’s time he was sufficiently advanced to be admitted by Busby ABOVE THE CURTAIN—that is, into the fourth class, the lowest in the upper school. Of this class, however, he says the head-master “took little or no care,” but as he rose into the higher forms he found the teaching more satisfactory.
Cuse, subs. (Winchester).—A book in which a record is kept of the “marks” in each division; a CLASSICUS PAPER (q.v.): also used for the weekly order.