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Constitutional. World English Historical Dictionary

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Constitutional. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Constitutional subs. (colloquial).—A walk undertaken for the sake of health and exercise [i.e., for the benefit of the constitution]. Tronchiner, from Doctor Tronchin, is French for the verb, tronchinade for the act.

1   1850.  F. E. SMEDLEY, Frank Fairlegh, ch. xxix. One evening, about a week before the examinations were to begin, I was taking my usual CONSTITUTIONAL after Hall.

2   1853.  REV. E. BRADLEY (‘Cuthbert Bede’), The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, pt. II., p. 41. At one time he was a great friend of Cocky Palmer’s, and used to go with him to the cock-fights at Wheatley—that village just on the other side Shotover Hill—where we did a ‘CONSTITUTIONAL’ the other day.

3   1871.  City of London Directory. ‘Facts and Anomalies.’ The valetudinarian has not much choice in the city for a CONSTITUTIONAL, seeing that it possesses but three walks, and ‘Long Walk’ is the shortest.

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