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Word: cookshop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Etonians use relatively little slang, get most of it from Latin. Some Etonisms: bumble (small beer with raisins), furk (an illegal football kick), lush (sweets), nant (a swimmer), pec (money-from pe-cunia), Pop (famed Eton society, from popina, a cookshop, where meetings were originally held), sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolboy Slang | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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