prick-bill
/ˈprɪkbɪl/Now historical
noun
A junior student at Christ Church, Oxford, responsible for recording compulsory chapel attendance by pricking off on a list the names of undergraduates as they enter the college chapel.
Origin
Early 19th century. From prick + bill.
- put flesh on (the bones of) something
- put foot
- puthery
- puthry
- putid
- put ideas into someone's head
- put in
- put into action
- Putin, Vladimir
- put it (or oneself) about
- put it there
- put lipstick on a pig
- putlock
- putlog
- putlog hole
- put money (or put one's money) on
- puto
- put-off
- put off the evil day (or hour)
- put-on
- put one over on
- put one's affairs in order
- put one's back into
- put one's best foot forward
- put oneself in another's place