prodigalish

No one seems to like the offer, and the umpire is just coming down, when a queer old hat, something like a doctor of divinity's shovel, is chucked on to the stage and an elderly, quiet man steps out, who has been watching the play, saying he should like to cross a stick wi 'the prodigalish young chap. The crowd cheer, and begin to chaff Joe, who turns up his nose and swaggers across to the sticks.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971