Word: bootham
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Since World War 1, schoolboy slang has been enriched by army expressions (e.g., gadget, posh, to do the dirty, to scrounge, to -wangle') and by Americanisms (lay off, scram). Most of it, however, is still the schoolboys' own, often unintelligible to outsiders. A Bootham boy, for example, says: "Just had a juice-meeting with My Lord for tuzhering a bug." Translation: "I've just been reprimanded by the Headmaster for breaking an electric-light bulb." Some other outlandish schoolboy expressions: belly-go-round (a belt), Medes and Persians (the practice of jumping...
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