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Mods|mɒdz|
colloquial abbreviation of Moderations: see moderation 4. Also attrib.
1858J. C. Thomson Almæ Matres 226 Between the ‘little⁓go’ and ‘mods’ he learns nothing new. 1876O. Wilde Let. 5 July (1962) 15 Tonight the Mods list comes out. 1893B. Whitby In Suntime of Youth I. ii. 26 Neither the attainment of the Balliol scholarship, nor a ‘first in Mods’, elicited a word of congratulation. 1952V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy i. xix. 221 The Schools in question were Mods—Classical Moderations—..Mods were for the language and literature of Greece and Rome. 1955Times 11 Aug. 9/2, I make a point of asking them how often they take down Aeschylus or Catullus and the usual answer is that they have scarcely opened a classical text since they got their first in Mods or won the Ireland. |