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.

Traps.  Constables and thief-takers.  Cant.

To trapan.  To inveigle, or ensnare.

Trapes.  A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.

Traveller.  To tip the traveller; to tell wonderful
  stories, to romance.

Travelling piquet.  A mode of amusing themselves,
  practised by two persons riding in a carriage, each
  reckoning towards his game the persons or animals that pass
  by on the side next them, according to the following
  estimation: 

  A parson riding a grey horse, witholue furniture; game. 
  An old woman under a hedge; ditto. 
  A cat looking out of a window; 60. 
  A man, woman, and child, in a buggy; 40. 
  A man with a woman behind him; 30. 
  A flock of sheep; 20. 
  A flock of geese; 10. 
  A post chaise; 5. 
  A horseman; 2. 
  A man or woman walking; 1.

Tray trip.  An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on
  a pavement marked out with chalk into different
  compartments.

Trencher cap.  The square cap worn by the collegians.
  at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Trencher man.  A stout trencher man; one who has a
  good appetite, or, as the term is, plays a good knife and
  fork.

TRESWINS.  Threepence.

Trib.  A prison:  perhaps from tribulation.

Trickum legis.  A quirk or quibble in the law.

Trig.  The point at which schoolboys stand to shoot their
  marbles at taw; also the spot whence bowlers deliver the
  bowl.

To trig it.  To play truant.  To lay a man trigging; to
  knock him down.

TRIGRYMATE.  An idle female companion.

Trim.  State, dress.  In a sad trim; dirty.—­Also spruce or
  fine:  a trim fellow.

Trim Tram.  Like master, like man.

Trimming.  Cheating, changing side, or beating.  I’ll
  trim his jacket; I’ll thresh him.  To be trimmed; to be
  shaved; I’ll just step and get trimmed.

Trine.  To hang; also Tyburn.

TRINGUM TRANGUM.  A whim, or maggot.

TRINING.  Hanging.

Trinkets.  Toys, bawbles, or nicknacks.

Trip.  A short voyage or journey, a false step or stumble,
  an error in the tongue, a bastard.  She has made a trip;
  she has had a bastard.

Tripe.  The belly, or guts.  Mr. Double Tripe; a fat
  man.  Tripes and trullibubs; the entrails:  also a jeering
  appellation for a fat man.

To Troll.  To loiter or saunter about.

Trolly lolly.  Coarse lace once much in fashion.

Trollop.  A lusty coarse sluttish woman.

Trooper.  You will die the death of a trooper’s horse,
  that is, with your shoes-on; a jocular method of telling
  any one he will be hanged.

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