1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue eBook

Francis Grose
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 343 pages of information about 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

TALLYWAGS, or TARRYWAGS.  A man’s testicles.

Tame.  To run tame about a house; to live familiarly in a
  family with which one is upon a visit.  Tame army; the
  city trained bands.

Tandem.  A two-wheeled chaise, buggy, or noddy, drawn
  by two horses, one before the other:  that is, at length.

Tangier.  A room in Newgate, where debtors were confined,
  hence called Tangerines.

Tanner.  A sixpence.  The kiddey tipped the rattling cove
  a tanner for luck; the lad gave the coachman sixpence for
  drink.

TANTADLIN Tart.  A sirreverence, human excrement.

Tantrums. Pet, or passion:  madam was in her tantrums.

Tantwivy.  Away they went tantwivy; away they went
  full speed.  Tantwivy was the sound of the hunting horn
  in full cry, or that of a post horn.

Tap.  A gentle blow.  A tap on the shoulder;-an-arrest. 
  To tap a girl; to be the first seducer:  in allusion to a beer
  barrel.  To tap a guinea; to get it changed.

Tappers.  Shoulder tappers:  bailiffs.

Tape.  Red tape; brandy.  Blue or white tape; gin.

TAPLASH.  Thick and bad beer.

Tar.  Don’t lose a sheep for a halfpennyworth of tar:  tar is
  used to mark sheep.  A jack tar; a sailor.

Taradiddle.  A fib, or falsity.

TARPAWLIN.  A coarse cloth tarred over:  also, figuratively,
  a sailor.

Tarring and feathering.  A punishment lately infliced
  by the good people of Boston on any person convicted,
  or suspected, of loyalty:  such delinquents being “stripped
  naked”, were daubed all over wilh tar, and afterwards put
  into a hogshead of feathers.

Tart.  Sour, sharp, quick, pert.

Tartar.  To catch a Tartar; to attack one of superior
  strength or abilities.  This saying originated from a story
  of an Irish-soldier in the Imperial service, who, in a battle
  against the Turks, called out to his comrade that he had
  caught a Tartar.  ‘Bring him along then,’ said he.  ’He
  won’t come,’ answered Paddy.  ‘Then come along yourself,’
  replied his comrade.  ‘Arrah,’ cried he, ’but he
  won’t let me.’—­A Tartar is also an adept at any feat, or
  game:  he is quite a Tartar at cricket, or billiards.

Tat.  Tit for tat; an equivalent.

TATS.  False dice.

Tatler.  A watch.  To flash a tatler:  to wear a watch.

Tat monger.  One that uses false dice.

Tatterdemalion.  A ragged fellow, whose clothes hang
  all in tatters.

Tattoo.  A beat of the drum, of signal for soldiers to go
  to their quarters, and a direction to the sutlers to close the
  tap, anddtew nomore liquor for them; it is generally
  beat at nine in summer and eight in winter.  The devil’s
  tattoo; beating with one’s foot against the ground, as done
  by persons in low spirits.

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