Word: jocular
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Dates: during 1883-1883
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...life at Oxford, says : The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict a fine of ten pounds on some undergraduates who had been guilty of an offence which used once to be described as "dusting a bobby," but which in these days is no longer spoken of in jocular terms. A spiteful assault committed by several young men upon a solitary policeman is, in fact, not a funny thing at all, but it is a comfort to observe that such unmanly freaks have grown comparatively rare of late years...