Felony
crime committed by educated members of academia.
Conjugation of the word felony and fellow. A fellow is a member of an academy/learned
society or a group of learned subjects, and a felony is traditionally considered a crime of
high seriousness.
I was walking down
Fleet St. when a bearded man of about 44 thumped me over the
head with a copy of Tolstoy's "
Childhood." He ran off screaming "that's an aggravated fellowny, but I've got tenure."