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.


