Ick.SeeAck.
Iliad,subs.(Charterhouse).—The regular penalty for late attendance at chapel and other minor offences.
Imperator,subs.(Stonyhurst).—A name given to the two first boys in each class.
Impo,subs.(Charterhouse).—An imposition.
Impositor,subs.(Sherborne: obsolete).—A school Præfect: sixteenth century.
Inferior,subs.(Winchester).—Any member of the school not aPræfect(q.v.).
c.1840.Mansfield,School-Life, p. 28. The Præfect of Hall ... was looked upon by theINFERIORSwith something more than a becoming awe and reverence.
Inform,verb(Charterhouse).—To sneak; to show up.
Infra-dig,adj.(Winchester).—Scornful; proud:e.g.“He sportedINFRA-DIGduck,” or “I amINFRA-DIGto it.”
Island, The(Rugby).—A mound or “tumulus” in the Close.
1867.Collins,The Public Schools, p. 372. They [the school volunteer corps] had not only parades, but sham fights—if a fight could be called a sham from which the combatants retired with broken heads and bloody noses—attacking and defending the Doctor’s farmyard on the littleISLANDbetween what were then the two Closes.
Isthmus-of-Suez,subs.(Cambridge).—The bridge at St. John’s College, Cambridge, leading from the grounds to one of the Courts, familiarly known as the “Bridge of Sighs.” AlsoThe Bridge of Grunts.[From its slight similarity to the Venetian example.Sues= swine, in punning reference to theJohnian Hogs(q.v.).]SeeCrackleandHog.
1857.Punch, June 20. A resident Fellowe he was, I wis, He had no cure of Soules; And across yeBRIDGE OF SUEShe’d come From playinge ye game of bowles.
1885.Cuthbert Bede, inN. and Q., 6 S., xi. 414. Another word isSues, for swine. This is applied to the bridge leading from the old courts to the new, familiarly known as theBRIDGE OF SIGHSfrom its slight similarity to the Venetian example, but also known as theISTHMUS OF SUEZ. This wordSuezwas then transformed toSuez, swine, to adapt it to its Johnian frequenters.