Rupert
n.— «Don’t the ranks refer to officers behind their backs as “Ruperts”?» —“‘I don’t treat Harry like dirt’” by Nigel Farndale in Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Telegraph (U.K.) Oct. 2, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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