Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Relieving-officer
subs. phr.—See quot.
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1883. GRENVILLE MURRAY, People I Have Met, 227. Now the RELIEVING OFFICER, or, for brevity’s sake, the “R. O.,” was a term of endearment which the Honourable Felix, in common with other young noblemen and gentlemen at Eton, applied to his father.
