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Wet-bob and Dry-bob

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At Eton a wet-bob is a boy who goes in for boating, but a dry-bob is one who goes in for cricket.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Wench (A)
Werner
Werther
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Wesleyan
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Westmoreland [Land of the West Moors]
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Wet Finger (With a)
Wetherell (Elizabeth)
Wexford Bridge Massacre
Weyd-monat
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Whale
Whalebone
Wharncliffe
Wharton
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