10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPORT ONE'S OAK»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
An oaken, hence an outer door, esp. in sport oak, in C.19-20 gen. sport one's oak
, to shut one's outer door as a sign that one is engaged: 1785 (Grose): university
s. >, ca. 1820, coll.—4. A joke: rhyming s.: late C.19-20. Ware-5. An occ. spelling
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Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
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The Chambers Dictionary
... of additional military decoration; sport one's oak (university slang. chiefly
Oxford and Cambridge] to keep one's outer door shut when one does not want
visitors: The Oaks a great English horse race (founded 1779) for three-year-old
fillies, ...
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)
... after Worcester.—Sport one's oak, inEnglish university slang,to signifythat one
doesnotwishvisitorsby closing theouterdoorof one's rooms; The Oaks, one of the
three greatEnglish races—for mares—the others being the Derby andStLeger.
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The Modern Anglo-Bengali Dictionary:
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Bedders, Bulldogs and Bedells: A Cambridge Glossary
... the oak and the baize doors may in modern circumstances be rarely closed.
The oak is also called a sport-door and the key to it a sport-key. Modern rooms
commonly have only one door, and the phrase to sport one's oak (which was
equally ...
“Do you fully comprehend what is wanted?”—North Country Cant. Oaf, a
lumbering,awkward fellow. A “Sporting Door,” or “Oak.” Oak, the outer door of
college rooms; to “sport one's oak,” to be “not at home” to visitors. See sport.—
University.
John Camden Hotten, Francis Grose, Ambrose Bierce, 2014
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words: Used ...
"To sport a new tile;" " to sport an JEgrotat" (I.e., a permission from the " Dons" to
abstain from lectures, &c, on account of illness); "to sport one's oak," to shut the
outer door and exclude the public, — especially duns, and boring acquaintances.
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The Slang Dictionary; Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, ...
... to be NUTS upon you. NUT-CUT, roguish, mischievous. A good-natured term
of reproach. — Anglo-Indian. " OH, BE JOYFUL," a bottle of rum.— Sea. OAK, the
outer door of college rooms; to "sport one's OAK," to be •' not at home" to visitors ...
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The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language: A ...
That which is made of oak, as a door, as used In the expression to sport one's
oak, to be 'not at home' to visitors ; notified by closing the outer or oak door of
one's room*. |l'n;r University slang.] — The Oaks stakes, a race for three-year-old
lillies ...
Sport, in the college phrase to sport one's oak, i.e. to keep one's door barred, to
bring it into requisition, is regarded by Mr. Oliphant as a corrupted form of the old
Eng. verb sparran, to close or bar, with a t suffixed to round it off, as in " thou art,"
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