Word: cricketish
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...Bobs (land sports) has become almost universal in British public schools. So keen is rivalry between Wets & Drys, each regarding his sport as gentlemanly, typically British, that a master becomes known as Wet or Dry according to the prevalent temper of his sympathies. Predominantly Dry Bob and cricketish is Harrow; but Eton began playing cricket in 1730 and Harrow has no record of it before 1771. Eton has lost no Eton-Harrow match since 1908 (but eight were drawn), and Old Etonians like to remember that Old Etonian Wellington said: "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields...
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