subs. (old).—A jocular and satirical corruption of the name of Oxford, quasi Block’s-ford, or the ford of Blockheads. (Nares.)
16[?]. CORBET, Poems (1807). ‘To the Lord Mordant.’
| What was the jest doe you aske? I dare repeate it, | |
| And put it home before you shall entreat it; | |
| He call’d me BLOXFORD-man: confesse I must | |
| ’T was bitter; and it griev’d mee, in a thrust | |
| That most ungratefull word (BLOXFORD) to heare | |
| From him, whose breath yet stunk of Oxford beere. |
c. 1609. J. HEALEY, The Discovery of a New World [Blocksford is the capital of Fooliana].
