Wet-bob and Dry-bob.

At Eton a wet-bob is a boy who goes in for boating, but a dry-bob is one who goes in for cricket.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Welsh Rabbit
Welsher
Wench (A)
Werner
Werther
Werwolf (French, loup-garou)
Wesleyan
Wessex, or West Saxon Kingdom
Westmoreland [Land of the West Moors]
Wet
Wet-bob and Dry-bob
Wet Finger (With a)
Wetherell (Elizabeth)
Wexford Bridge Massacre
Weyd-monat
Whale
Whale
Whalebone
Wharncliffe
Wharton
What we Gave we Have, What we Spent we Had, What we Had we Lost