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school butter
school butter n. (a) slang a flogging (obsolete); (b) (perhaps) smooth, persuasive talk as learnt in the universities (cf. butter n.1 2b) (obsolete); (c) U.S. regional (chiefly southern) slang (now historical) used as a jeer or taunt to schoolchildren.
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c1571 July & Julian ii. ii. 13 I faith mr Dicke had some scholbutter to day.
1585 A. Munday tr. L. Pasqualigo Fedele & Fortunio v. ii. sig. G1v O yt I had some of Pediculus [i.e. Pedante's] Schoole-butter to make me a lip salue.
a1625 J. Fletcher Loyal Subj. v. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Fff4v/1 He was whipt like a top, I never saw a whore so lac'd: Court schoole-butter? Is this their diet?
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Cob, or Cobbing, a punishment used by the seamen for petty offences or irregularities among themselves... This piece of discipline is also inflicted in Ireland, by the school-boys, on persons coming into the school without taking off their hats; it is there called school butter.
1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes 84 I fell down.., running after that fellow that cried ‘school-butter’.
1914 Radford (Va.) Normal Bull. Aug. 14 A horseman, passing a certain school, called out ‘School butter’, and immediately set spurs to his horse. The teacher permitted all the larger boys of the school to join in the chase.
a1985 C. D. Williams Tales from Sacred Wind (2003) iv. 207 Then he yelled in a cracked old voice, ‘School butter! School butter! Ye'd better git out of my way!’.
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