Word: facons
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...from the Lampoon and from Snodkins, '80, thinks it must be a most charming, fascinating place; the men horribly bad (oh! Snodkins, '80) and delightful, and at once wishes herself a collegian. Such are some of the remarks we hear outside. College men, of course, have their own peculiar facon de panler. Of all the epithets that they use, the most remarkable is that of a "Hole." The meaning of this word has often puzzled me, as I have heard it from men as different as the meanings they apparently attach...