prick-billn.

Brit.

/ˈprɪkbɪl/, U.S.

/ˈprɪkˌbɪl/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: prick v., bill n.³

Etymology: < prick v. + bill n.³

Now historical.

A junior student at Christ Church, Oxford, responsible for recording compulsory chapel attendance by pricking off on a list the names of undergraduates as they enter the college chapel. Also in extended use (see quot. 1879).

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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > types at specific universities

son?c1550

Bibler1569

round cap1572

batteler1604

fellow commoner1614

gentleman-commoner1614

primar1642

Bible-clerk1650

Harry-Sopha1661

hodman1677

nobleman1682

seconder1684

grueller1691

ternar1698

tuft1755

red gowna1774

ten-year-man1816

prick-bill1818

bear1828

martinet1831

sheep1865

trotter1883

skiver1884

hall-reader1886

sign-off1902

night climber1937

techie1969

1818 F. Hook MS Let. 26 Jan. (Archives Christ Church, Oxf.: MR iii.b.2) I am to be his prick bill that is to prick the Commoners' names, not those of the Gent. commoners.

1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 174 Another visit from the prick bill.

1853 ‘L. Carroll’ Diary 15 Oct. in Life & Lett. (1898) 53 Found I had got the prickbills two hundred lines apiece for not pricking in in the morning.

1879 T. F. Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. 371 At Christ Church the student, whose turn it was to do this [sc. prick off the names of those entering the chapel], was called prickbill; and though the verger now ‘pricks’ the ‘bill’, the name of ‘prick-bill’ still survives and is given to the senior of the students elected in the current year.

2005 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic ed.) at Gladstone, William Ewart He [sc. Gladstone] found Christ Church Cathedral almost as arid in its religion as Eton chapel. After he became its ‘prickbill’ (recorder of compulsory attendance) he was beaten up in his rooms on 23 March 1830, probably for excessive and officious zeal in his duties.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prick-bill
释义	prick-billn. Brit. /ˈprɪkbɪl/, U.S. /ˈprɪkˌbɪl/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: prick v., bill n.³ Etymology: < prick v. + bill n.³ Now historical. A junior student at Christ Church, Oxford, responsible for recording compulsory chapel attendance by pricking off on a list the names of undergraduates as they enter the college chapel. Also in extended use (see quot. 1879). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > types at specific universities son?c1550 Bibler1569 round cap1572 batteler1604 fellow commoner1614 gentleman-commoner1614 primar1642 Bible-clerk1650 Harry-Sopha1661 hodman1677 nobleman1682 seconder1684 grueller1691 ternar1698 tuft1755 red gowna1774 ten-year-man1816 prick-bill1818 bear1828 martinet1831 sheep1865 trotter1883 skiver1884 hall-reader1886 sign-off1902 night climber1937 techie1969 1818 F. Hook MS Let. 26 Jan. (Archives Christ Church, Oxf.: MR iii.b.2) I am to be his prick bill that is to prick the Commoners' names, not those of the Gent. commoners. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 174 Another visit from the prick bill. 1853 ‘L. Carroll’ Diary 15 Oct. in Life & Lett. (1898) 53 Found I had got the prickbills two hundred lines apiece for not pricking in in the morning. 1879 T. F. Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. 371 At Christ Church the student, whose turn it was to do this [sc. prick off the names of those entering the chapel], was called prickbill; and though the verger now ‘pricks’ the ‘bill’, the name of ‘prick-bill’ still survives and is given to the senior of the students elected in the current year. 2005 Oxf. Dict. National Biogr. (Electronic ed.) at Gladstone, William Ewart He [sc. Gladstone] found Christ Church Cathedral almost as arid in its religion as Eton chapel. After he became its ‘prickbill’ (recorder of compulsory attendance) he was beaten up in his rooms on 23 March 1830, probably for excessive and officious zeal in his duties. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1818
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