Word: dox
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Food, especially pudding, inspires British schoolboys to a "peculiarly revolting form of humor" (e.g., maggots-in-milk-rice pudding; cats' eyes-in-phlegm-sago pudding). For their headmasters they have many names: the Boss, the Chief, the Dox, the Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group...