Schoolboy Definitions.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XII, 20 September 1902, Page 716

Schoolboy Definitions.

Here is a list of definitions given by various boys recently in a literature paper, and they are guaranteed genuine and home-made:—-Papal Bull —the sacrificial bull of the Church of Rome; a pretty bull; a fierce pope; a joke about popery. Coin of vantage —usury; a valuable coin; a bad coin. Cabalistic—pertaining to cables; like a cab. Paradox—opposite to orthodox; opposite to “authodox”; a heavenly story; a humorous poem; according to strict rules, as a Paradox church. Apocryphal—pertaining to a doctor’s business; pertaining to the science of the lower limlbs. Prevaricate —to think a. long time before speaking. There is a delightful suggestion about that last definition that a boy tells the truth only when he is flustered. 4- -i- •4-