He thought ... First of his distant home and parents, tunc, Of tutors' note-books, and the morrow's _flunk_. _Ibid._, Feb. 1851. In moody meditation sunk, Reflecting on my future _flunk_. _Songs of Yale_, 1853, p. 54. And so, in spite of scrapes and _flunks_, I'll have a sheep-skin too. _Presentation Day Songs_, June 14, 1854. Some amusing anecdotes are told, such as the well-known one about the lofty dignitary's macaronic injunction, "Exclude canem, et shut the door"; and another of a tutor's dismal _flunk_ on faba.--_Harv. Mag._, Vol. I. p. 263. FLUNK. To make a complete failure when called on to recite. A writer in the Yale Literary Magazine defines it, "to decline peremptorily, and then to whisper, 'I had it all, except that confounded little place.'"--Vol. XIV. p. 144. They know that a man who has _flunked_, because too much of a genius to get his lesson, is not in a state to appreciate joking. --_Amherst Indicator_, Vol. I. p. 253. Nestor was appointed to deliver a poem, but most ingloriously _flunked_.--_Ibid._, Vol. I. p. 256. The phrase _to flunk out_, which Bartlett, in his Dictionary of Americanisms, defines, "to retire through fear, to back out," is of the same nature as the above word. Why, little one, you must be cracked, if you _flunk out_ before we begin.--_J.C. Neal_. It was formerly used in some American colleges as is now the word _flunk_. We must have, at least, as many subscribers as there are students in College, or "_flunk out."--The Crayon_, Yale Coll., 1823, p. 3. FLUNKEY. In college parlance, one who makes a complete failure at recitation; one who _flunks_. I bore him safe through Horace, Saved him from the _flunkey's_ doom. _Yale Lit. Mag._, Vol. XX. p. 76. FLUNKING. Failing completely in reciting. _Flunking_ so gloomily, Crushed by contumely. _Yale Lit. Mag._, Vol. XIII. p. 322. We made our earliest call while the man first called up in the division-room was deliberately and gracefully "_flunking_."--_Ibid._, Vol. XIV. p. 190. See what a spot a _flunking_ Soph'more made! _Yale Gallinipper_, Nov. 1848. FLUNKOLOGY. A farcical word, designed to express the science _of flunking_. The ---- scholarship, is awarded to the student in each Freshman Class who passes the poorest examination in _Flunkology_.--_Burlesque Catalogue_, Yale Coll., 1852-53, p. 28.