»_spooning_ smutty-faced servant-gals across area railings.» (T. T. T. 157. 3.) _Uneducated young man._ »_Spoony_ couples.» (T. T. T. 129. 24.) _A waiter._ _To spoon_, originally _student-slang_ = _flirt_, _make love_. _Spoony_ = _enamoured_. (A spoon, originally = a simpleton, esp. an absurd whole-hearted lover.) stodgy »I often feel sorry for you, having nobody but grown-up people to talk to.»— »They do get a bit _stodgy_ after a certain age,» agreed the Babe. (Tommy And Co. 164. 16.) _A young gentleman._ _Stodgy_, probably _schoolboy slang_, is something heavy, unappetizing, or difficult to digest, lying heavily on the stomach, literally or figuratively: e. g. ill-cooked potatoes, a man whose conversation is all facts and no wit, etc. Cf. _stodge_: food, a heavy meal. _stodger_: a glutton. tuck »Waste not your substance upon tops and marbles, nor yet upon _tuck_ (Do ye still call it »tuck»?).» (P. Kelver I. 111. 6.) _The author._ _Schoolboy slang_ for _pastry_, _sweetstuff_, and the like. Cf. _tuck-shop_ = a pastrycook’s. The term is also used as a generic for _edibles_ and _appetite._ twig »Too terribly true. She’d _twig_ it.» (They And I. 258. 4.) _A schoolgirl._ »It being a foggy night, nobody _twigged_ me.» (Tommy And Co. 42. 21.) _A London brat._ _Schoolboy slang_ for _notice_. Cf. »Glad you are not _twigged_, gen’lemen.» (F. W. FARRAR, Eric or Little By Little. III.) _Twiggez-vous?_ = Do you see? VULGARISM OR CANT buck up »What he wants is _bucking up_; somebody to say to him, ‘Bravo! why, this is splendid’.» (They And I. 239. 3.) _The author._ _To buck up_ is _schoolboy slang_ (Winchester College) for _to be glad_, _pleased_, _to cheer up_. The usual expression is: _Oh, buck up!_—a phrase which at Westminster School would have a different meaning, namely _exert yourself_; at Uppingham, _to be bucked_ is _to be tired_. (Farmer & Henley.) bunk »Don’t see anything for it, but for him _to do a bunk_.»—»Not a bad idea that, only where’s ’e to _bunk_ to?» (P. Kelver II. 56. 8.) _A young clerk._ _To bunk_, probably originally _schoolboy slang_, means _to escape_, _run away_, _take to flight_ (because of ‘funk’, or to avoid punishment). _To do a bunk_: colloquial use of _do_ with a verb stem used as a noun = achieve, perform, the action denoted by the verb. Cf. _to do a drink_. bloke »This _bloke_ I have fallen on looks a bit sick.» (P. Kelver II. 237. 2.) _A plumber._ »I wouldn’t have them know as ’ow I was one of them college _blokes_.» (Novel Notes 203. 23.) _Uneducated young Londoner._ _Bloke_ (or _bloak_) is _London-cant_ for _man_, _fellow_. (Possibly, the word is derived from the Dutch _blok_, Germ. _Block_, though, if this is the case, it is difficult to account for the long vowel.) blooming »Not a _blooming_ shadow, assured me J.,» so far as she’s concerned. (P. Kelver II. 53. 16.) _A young City clerk._