Vocabulary from The Professor

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Good thread idea, Mark!

Originally Posted by Bombadil Goes Boating

'If one day the King returns, in upping he may take you,
brand your yellow bill, and less lordly make you!'

Tom to Old Swan of Elver-isle.

Swan upping is apparently a royal prerogative around Oxford, and so it is of course a cultural and historical marker rather than a philological survival. We don't up our swans here, not even those in Stratford, Ontario, so I didn't know the usage.