Glowecestre 1086 ‘Roman town called Glevum’

At Gloucester College School the boys not wearing oak apples on the 29th of May were hooted at by their comrades, who yelled ‘shig-shag’ as an “opprobrious epithet” after them

Notes and Quiries, 5th S. Vol iv, pp.176-7; Cited in: Moutray Read, D.H (1911) Hampshire Folklore, Folklore 22:3 292-329