Etonicè

English Alternative forms en Etonice Etonicé Etymology en fr, derived from en Eton + pseudo-Gallic suffix -icè, possibly influenced by terms ending in en fr -trice such as fr prosatrice or fr restauratrice. Proper noun en England humorous dated The characteristic speech or slang of Eton College. en Samuel Rashleigh The Rashleigh Letter-Bag: VI. Mr Samuel Rashleigh to the Rev. Marmaduke Bradshaw The Etonian Windsor, Berkshire: Knight and Dredge; London: John Warren 23 May 1821 1821 II 301 https://archive.org/details/etonian00collgoog/page/n303/mode/1up 2 5073166 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. en Alexander Lindsay Lord Lindsay's Letters on Egypt and the Holy Land w:Tait's Edinburgh Magazine Edinburgh W. Tait October 1838 659 https://archive.org/details/sim_taits-edinburgh-magazine_1838-10_5_58/page/659/mode/1up 2 7202007 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. en Tale of the Tub w:The Living Age 901 Boston, M.A. Littell, Son, & Co. 7 September 1861 volume XIV (third series) 613 https://archive.org/details/sim_living-age_1861-09-07_70_901/page/613/mode/1up 1 4670821 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. en Charles Phillips IX The Cream of a Life London Richard Bentley 1863 I 135 https://archive.org/details/creamoflife01phil/page/135/mode/1up 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. en w:Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe The Lay of the Sheriff London w:Chiswick Press 1869 14 https://archive.org/details/layofsheriff00lybb/page/14/mode/1up 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!"