Word: pragger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heir was not "Georgie" but "Eddy." At Cambridge this languid and effeminate prince was called by his fellow undergraduates "Collar and Cuffs" (the present Prince of Wales was "Pragger Wagger" at Oxford. An ejaculation which "Collar and Cuffs" could be depended on to utter in almost any circumstances was "Really!" in a particularly flat drawl. Nevertheless he, the Duke of Clarence, was definitely the favorite child of his proud mother, later Queen Alexandra. Possibly apocryphal but thoroughly typical is the following tale...