| 单词 | proctor's bulldog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproctor's bulldog proctor's bulldog n. University slang an officer of the university of Oxford or Cambridge whose duty is to maintain order (and who would originally accompany a proctor on street patrols); cf. bulldog n. 2. ΚΠ 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn I. xi. 89 He had taken by the throat a proctor's bull-dog when he had been drunk at Oxford..and had been expelled. 1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xii. 257 The Proctor's bull-dogs..had come through the archway at a smart trot. 1965 J. Morris Oxford x. 138 An undergraduate falling off a punt, or the bells of Osney Abbey, or a raindrop falling on an elf, or a Proctor's Bulldog chasing an undergraduate across Christ Church meadows. 1984 Guardian (Nexis) 15 Nov. The protest at the Garden House Hotel, Cambridge, in 1970, when..seven were imprisoned and two sent to Borstal after police and proctor's ‘bulldogs’—their private police force going back 755 years—were injured. < as lemmas |
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