subs. (obsolete).—See quot.
1864. HOTTEN, The Slang Dictionary, s.v. STINKOMALEE, a name given to the then New London University by Theodore Hook. Probably because some cow-houses and dunghills stood on the original site. Some question about Trincomalee was agitated at the same time. It is still applied by the students of the old Universities, who regard it with disfavour from its admitting all denominations.
