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...Jowler. Like anything else, university slang has had its contagious fads. In the 17th Century, students ranged their drinking companions in a sort of academic hierarchy. A Bachelor meant a lean drunkard, a Bachelor of Law was one "that hath a purple face, inchac't with rubies," a Doctor was one that "hath a red nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both...
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