Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Ponto
subs. (school).—New breadcrumbs kneaded into a pellet.
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1900. St. James’s Gazette, 15 March, ‘Arnoldiana.’ He [Mathew Arnold] was placed at the end of the great school, and, amid howls and jeers, pelted with a rain of PONTOS for some time.
