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.

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.

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