Etonicè
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Eton + the pseudo-French suffix -icè.
Proper noun
[edit]Etonicè
- (England, humorous, dated) The characteristic speech or slang of Eton College.
- 1821 May 23, Samuel Rashleigh, “The Rashleigh Letter-Bag: VI. Mr Samuel Rashleigh to the Rev. Marmaduke Bradshaw”, in The Etonian, volume II, Windsor, Berkshire: Knight and Dredge, London: John Warren, published 1821, →OCLC, page 301, column 2:
- To do this in proper style, is, I assure you, reckoned a most difficult thing among the most expert performers; utterly unattainable, I am sure, by any of the rustics (Etonicè Clods) whom one sees playing at home.
- 1838 October, Alexander Lindsay, “Lord Lindsay's Letters on Egypt and the Holy Land”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: W. Tait, →OCLC, page 659, column 2:
- The crew consists of ten men, besides there is or captain; they are active, willing, good-humoured fellows, and have harmonious voices, a great lounge (to speak Etonicé), as the Arab boatmen are a noisy set, constantly singing to their work, and always in chorus; one of them leads, and the rest join in, generally line by line, alternately, neither uttering more than five or six words at a time.
- 1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1:
- We remember in ancient times, when William IV. was king, on a magnificent sheet of brownish water, gracefully named Duck Puddle, a select little coterie of waterfunks (the title sufficiently explains itself—Etonicè frousts) would be unjustifiably but carefully placed on two old punts, or on a punt and an unhinged door, massive as that of Gaza, and on those treacherous rafts committed like Danae to the mercy of the waves.
- 1863, Charles Phillips, chapter IX, in The Cream of a Life, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 135:
- The Comte de Ségur, in his amusing 'Mémoires et Souvenirs,' observes, à propos of his first interview with Frederick the Great of Prussia, that anyone with a due allowance of 'élevation dans l'âme' (Hibericè, 'asy assurance') can undergo the ceremony of introduction to a crowned head with proper dignity and composure; but that a certain degree of 'émotion'—(Etonicè, 'funk')—is inevitable on being first brought face to face with a really Great Man.
- 1869, Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe, The Lay of the Sheriff, London: Chiswick Press, page 14:
- I've funk'd and stew'd1 to think what earthly power / […] 1Etonice for being frightened, or alarmed at, as may be illustrated by the following imaginary talk between two lower boys:—"I say, old fellow, who funks a flogging?" "Not I, my boy! but I am in a precious stew about that licking Box Major promised me!"