tollyn.

/ˈtɒli/

Etymology: apparently < tallow n.

School slang. Now archaic or Historical.

A (tallow) candle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > by dipping in tallow

tallow candle1452

dip1815

tallow1819

dip-candle1829

tolly1890

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 360/2 Tolly (public schools), a candle.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xiii An Olympian is privileged to work a little longer by the light of the useful ‘tolly’.

1905 Daily News 2 Aug. 4 Who does not recognise a living experience in Hugh working after prohibited hours for a scholarship, caught by the master and ‘jawed for having a tolly alight’.

1924 E. Marsh tr. La Fontaine Fables 77 The luckless tolly..Ended as a pool of grease.

Derivatives

tolly v. Harrow (intransitive) to work by candle-light after the lights have been extinguished; to ‘burn the midnight oil’; usually with up.

ΚΠ

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 360/2 Tolly up, to (Harrow School), to keep a candle alight after the gas has been turned off.

1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 73 The process known as ‘tollying up’, or working by candle-light after the legal hours.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	tolly
释义	tollyn. /ˈtɒli/ Etymology: apparently < tallow n. School slang. Now archaic or Historical. A (tallow) candle. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > made from animal fat > by dipping in tallow tallow candle1452 dip1815 tallow1819 dip-candle1829 tolly1890 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 360/2 Tolly (public schools), a candle. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xiii An Olympian is privileged to work a little longer by the light of the useful ‘tolly’. 1905 Daily News 2 Aug. 4 Who does not recognise a living experience in Hugh working after prohibited hours for a scholarship, caught by the master and ‘jawed for having a tolly alight’. 1924 E. Marsh tr. La Fontaine Fables 77 The luckless tolly..Ended as a pool of grease. Derivatives tolly v. Harrow (intransitive) to work by candle-light after the lights have been extinguished; to ‘burn the midnight oil’; usually with up. ΚΠ 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 360/2 Tolly up, to (Harrow School), to keep a candle alight after the gas has been turned off. 1894 W. H. Wilkins & H. Vivian Green Bay Tree I. 73 The process known as ‘tollying up’, or working by candle-light after the legal hours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1890
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