| 释义 |
‖ pennal|ˈpɛnəl|
[Ger. peˈnnāl pen-case, school-boy, a. med.L. pennāle pen-case, f. penna pen.]
Formerly, in German Protestant Universities, a slang name for a freshman, from their carrying about with them their pen-cases for use at lectures.
1882in Ogilvie, and in later Dicts.
Hence ˈpennalism [Ger. and mod.L. pennalismus], an oppressive system of fagging practised upon freshmen in German Universities in the 17th century. (Abolished about the end of the 17th c.)
1863W. C. Dowding Life G. Calixtus iv. 24 Pennalism was a frightful system of ‘bullying’. Ibid. v. 31 It was they who held pennalism, with its terrors, in check. Ibid. xx. 183. |