Tickle text. A parson.
Tickle PITCKEB. A thirsty fellow, a sot.
Tickle tail. A rod, or schoolmaster. A man’s penis.
TICKRUM. A licence.
Tidy. Neat.
TIFFING. Eating or drinking out of meal time,
disputing
or falling out; also lying with a wench,
A tiff of punch,
a small bowl of punch.
TILBUKY. Sixpence; so called from its formerly
being the
fare for Crossing over from Gravesend
to Tilbury Fort.
Tilt. To tilt; to fight with a sword.
To run full tilt
against one; allusion to the ancient tilling
with the lance.
Tilter. A sword.
Tim whisky. A light one—horse chaise without a head.
Timber toe. A man with a wooden leg.
Tiny. Little.
To tip. To give or lend. Tip me
your daddle; give me
your hand. Tip me a hog; give me
a shilling. To tip
the lion; to flatten a man’s nose
with the thumb, and, at
the same time to extend his mouth, with
the fingers, thereby
giving him a sort of lion-like countenauce.
To tip the
velvet; tonguing woman. To tip all
nine; to knock
down all the nine pins at once, at the
game of bows or
skittles: tipping, at these gaines,
is slightly touching the
tops of the pins with the bowl. Tip;
a draught; don’t
spoil his tip.
Tip-top. The best: perhaps from
fruit, that growing at
the top of the tree being generally the
best, as partaking
most of the sun. A tip-top workman;
the best, or most
excellent Workman.
Tipperary fortune. Two town lands,
stream’s town,
and ballinocack; said of Irish women without
fortune.
Tipple. Liquor.
TIPPLERS. Sots who are continually sipping.
Tipsey. Almost drunk.
Tiring. Dressing: perhaps abbreviation
of attiring. Tiring
women, or tire women: women that
used to cut ladies
hair, and dress them.
Tit. A horse; a pretty little tit; a smart
little girl.
a *** or tid bit; a delicate morsel.
Tommy tit; a smart lively
little fellow.
Tit for tat. An equivalent.
To titter. To suppress a laugh.
Titter tatter. One reeling, and ready
to fall at the least
touch; also the childish amusement of
riding upon the
two ends of a plank, poised upon the prop
underneath its
centre, called also see-saw. Perhaps
tatter is a rustic
pronunciation of totter.
Tittle-tattle. Idle discourse, scandal,
women’s talk,
or small talk.
Tittup. A gentle hand gallop, or canter.
Tizzy. Sixpence.


