Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Pruff
verb. (Winchester School).—Sturdy; ‘proof’ against pain.
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1881. PASCOE, ed. Everyday Life in Our Public Schools, 94. Deprive a Wykehamist of words … such as ‘quill’ … ‘PRUFF’ … ‘spree’ … ‘cud’ … and his vocabulary becomes limited.
