aristophagist

From aristo- + -phagy + -ist, i.e. “eater of the best”. Coined by English physician Josiah Oldfield in 1900.

coinage

Before they can become aristophagists they must develop within, the higher instinct of wanting to be gentle and to be kind, of willingness to suffer somewhat for their principles; of joy in self-sacrifice that others may escape suffering.

1901 January 15, Josiah Oldfield, “Let the Lower Classes Eat Meat”, in Herald of the Golden Age, volume 6, number 1, page 5:

The meat eater is not ashamed of his meat eating. Why then is the Aristophagist ashamed of his Aristophagy?

1902 February, Peter Davidson, “Fixed Stars”, in Herald of the Golden Age, volume 7, number 2, →OCLC, page 21:

We wish the Order well, albeit cucumbers with onions may taste as well in the mouth of the meat eater as in that of the aristophagist.

1905 [1901 January 11], “Aristophagy”, in Casual Essays of The Sun, New York: Robert Grier Cooke, →OCLC, page 60:

I believe you are right in saying that in our recent test the kreaphagists have all come out badly, while the 3 aristophagists have passed it successfully.

1989, Joseph E. Ross, Krotona of Old Hollywood, 1866-1913 - Volume 1, page 25:

(obsolete, chiefly England) lacto-ovo-vegetarian


DDJ

deputy district judge
deputy district judge#English

(law, Hong Kong, England, Wales) Abbreviation of deputy district judge.


drexil

But, after a bit, father up and out after the cattle, and there he found you, as I said, in a faint, and wet as seaweed, on the drexil .

1887, Sabine Baring Gould, The Gaverocks, page 48:

(countable, obsolete, England) The threshold of a door.


andersmeat

(England, regional, dated, obsolete) A light snack consumed in the afternoon.

This is my whack of bread and cheese for andersmeat.

1905, Joseph Wright (editor), The English Dialect Dictionary, page 437:

(England, regional, dated, obsolete) A lunch.


whole life order

en-noun

whole life order (plural whole life orders)

(England, Wales, criminal law) A type of life imprisonment reserved for the most serious cases, in which the convict is not eligible for parole or conditional release.


pyjama injunction

pyjama injunction (plural pyjama injunctions)

From urban legends stating that judges wore pyjamas when dealing with such injunctions due to lateness.

They're called pyjama injunctions because, according to folklore, they're granted by High Court judges who, due to the lateness of the hour, are already in kipping gear.

2000 July 3, Marcel Berlins, “Beware judges in pyjamas”, in the Guardian:

When the claimants were informed that Hello! was about to publish the unauthorised photographs, they immediately sought a ‘pyjama injunction’ by telephone.

2001, Jonathan Horton, “The developing right to privacy - at common law”, in Privacy Law and Policy Reporter, volume 7, number 10, page 206:

The measure — branded a "pyjama injunction" by critics as it can be issued outside normal court hours — was behind the grounding of the first flight to Rwanda in June 2022.

2024 January 25, Emma Soteriou, “Rishi Sunak faces fresh blow over Rwanda as European judge claims plan is unlawful”, in LBC:

(England, Wales, informal) An injunction that was granted (typically at night) with expediency outside a court's office hours.


Etonicè

From Eton + the pseudo-French suffix -icè.

To do this in proper style, is, I assure you, reckoned a most difficult thing among the most expert performers; utterly unattainable, I am sure, by any of the rustics (Etonicè Clods) whom one sees playing at home.

1821 May 23, Samuel Rashleigh, “The Rashleigh Letter-Bag: VI. Mr Samuel Rashleigh to the Rev. Marmaduke Bradshaw”, in The Etonian, volume II, Windsor, Berkshire: Knight and Dredge, London: John Warren, published 1821, →OCLC, page 301, column 2:

The crew consists of ten men, besides there is or captain; they are active, willing, good-humoured fellows, and have harmonious voices, a great lounge (to speak Etonicé), as the Arab boatmen are a noisy set, constantly singing to their work, and always in chorus; one of them leads, and the rest join in, generally line by line, alternately, neither uttering more than five or six words at a time.

1838 October, Alexander Lindsay, “Lord Lindsay's Letters on Egypt and the Holy Land”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh: W. Tait, →OCLC, page 659, column 2:

We remember in ancient times, when William IV. was king, on a magnificent sheet of brownish water, gracefully named Duck Puddle, a select little coterie of waterfunks (the title sufficiently explains itself—Etonicè frousts) would be unjustifiably but carefully placed on two old punts, or on a punt and an unhinged door, massive as that of Gaza, and on those treacherous rafts committed like Danae to the mercy of the waves.

1861 September 7, “Tale of the Tub”, in The Living Age, volume XIV (third series), number 901, Boston, M.A.: Littell, Son, & Co., →OCLC, page 613, column 1:

The Comte de Ségur, in his amusing 'Mémoires et Souvenirs,' observes, à propos of his first interview with Frederick the Great of Prussia, that anyone with a due allowance of 'élevation dans l'âme' (Hibericè, 'asy assurance') can undergo the ceremony of introduction to a crowned head with proper dignity and composure; but that a certain degree of émotion—(Etonicè, 'funk')—is inevitable on being first brought face to face with a really Great Man.

1863, Charles Phillips, chapter IX, in The Cream of a Life, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, page 135:

I've funk'd and stew'd¹ to think what earthly power / […] ¹Etonice for being frightened, or alarmed at, as may be illustrated by the following imaginary talk between two lower boys:—"I say, old fellow, who funks a flogging?" "Not I, my boy! but I am in a precious stew about that licking Box Major promised me!"

1869, Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe, The Lay of the Sheriff, London: Chiswick Press, page 14:

(England, humorous, dated) The characteristic speech or slang of Eton College.


view of frankpledge

view of frankpledge (plural views of frankpledge)

(England, historical) A gathering and inspection that occurred twice a year where every freeman over the age of twelve was required to appear in order to prove their loyalty to the king and also sought nine other freemen to vouch for their good behavior.


emparkment

emparkment (countable and uncountable, plural emparkments)

(England) Creation of a park by enclosure, often for hunting purposes.


possession with intent to supply

possession with intent to supply (uncountable)

criminal offence
criminal offence#English

(England and Wales, criminal law) The criminal offence of being in possession of an illegal drug with the intent to deal or otherwise supply it to another person; typically, by being in possession of a quantity sufficiently large that it is implausible to claim that it is for personal use under the circumstances.


court of regard

court of regard (plural courts of regard)

(England, law, historical) A forest court that dealt with issues related to forestland, such as waste and encroachment.


forest court

(England, law, historical) A court that had jurisdiction over a woodland area that was usually owned by the King.


droke

As a term for a valley with a stream, or a stream itself, found in various dialects as droke, drock, or drook; in various dialects one or more of those words can also denote other clefts, coves, drainage ditches, and furrows, or part of a plough.
Perhaps related to Old Norse or Icelandic drag (“soft slope or valley”).

I sent Fogarty forward to Foul-weather Droke to prepare for the night; while I walked to Condon Tickle and measured the breadth of it. I then went over Lower Table to the Droke; where I observed much old slot of deer, […]

1792, George Cartwright, A Journal of Transactions and Events, page 210:

And how dexterously he ascended the "sculpin highlands," climbed up Job's Cove Droke, toiled through the sands at Northern Bay, waded the Northern Gut, or plodded through Short's Marsh, would furnish a theme for conversation to the weary traveller, as he sat by the cheerful evening fire, and[…]

1866, William Wilson, Newfoundland and Its Missionaries: In Two Parts. To which is Added a Chronological Table of All the Important Events that Have Occurred on the Island, Cambridge, Mass. : Printed by Dakin & Metcalf, page 195:

I tooked her [a gun] and the powder-harn and shot-bag and starts up yander through the droke. You know the little pond at the top of the hill. When I cumed in sigh' o' un, the first thing I see is a loo' (loon) sitting about the middle uv un.

1894, The Journal of American Folklore, page 288:

Across the droch, lifted high above the maid and me, his slender figure black against the pale-green sky, stood John Cather on the brink of Tom Tulk's cliff, with arms extended in some ecstasy to the smouldering western fire.

1907, Norman Duncan, The Cruise of the Shining Light, Toronto, H. Frowde, page 269:

(dialectal, especially England, Newfoundland) A narrow valley with steep sides, sometimes with a stream.


Warden of the Mint

(England, historical) A high-ranking position at the Royal Mint in England, responsible for a variety of minting procedures and acting as the immediate representative of the current monarch inside the mint.