Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...played on the Nine. The day before the Worcester game, four men sent word that sickness or family affairs would prevent their playing next day. All that could be done was to get together all the ball-players then in Cambridge, - it was vacation, - and to start with this scrub nine. To strengthen our side, the Worcesters willingly agreed to let us have George Wright, and even then we had to put in right field a Harvard student living in Worcester, who was entirely out of practice. In the Boston game, which also was played during vacation, Macullar, a professional...
Come, cut, you scrub, light out, walk off upon your...
...dead, namely, a total failure, is known differently elsewhere as fess (West Point), smash (Wesleyan), and burst (several Southern colleges). The Acta makes a mistake in not noticing the fact that our word mucker applies only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...