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.

Trot.  An old trot; a decrepit old woman.  A dog trot; a
  gentle pace.

Trotters.  Feet.  To shake one’s trotters at Bilby’s ball,
  where the sheriff pays the fiddlers; perhaps the Bilboes
  ball, i.e. the ball of fetters:  fetters and stocks were
  anciently called the bilboes.

To trounce.  To punish by course of law.

Truck.  To exchange, swop, or barter; also a wheel
  such as ship’s guns are placed upon.

Trull.  A soldier or a tinker’s trull; a soldier or tinker’s
  female companion.—­Guteli, or trulli, are spirits like women,
  which shew great kindness to men, and hereof it is
  that we call light women trulls.  Randle Holm’s
  academy of armory.

Trumpery.  An old whore, or goods of no value; rubbish.

Trumpet.  To sound one’s own trumpet; to praise one’s
  self.

Trumpeter.  The king of Spain’s trumpeter; a braying
  ass.  His trumpeter is dead, he is therefore forced to
  sound his own trumpet.  He would make an excellent
  trumpeter, for he has a strong breath; said of one having
  a foetid breath.

Trumps.  To be put to one’s trumps:  to be in difficulties,
  or put to one’s shifts.  Something may turn up trumps;
  something lucky may happen.  All his cards are trumps: 
  he is extremely fortunate.

TRUNDLERS.  Peas.

Trunk.  A nose.  How fares your old trunk? does your
  nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or trunk
  of an elephant.  To shove a trunk:  to introduce one’s
  self unasked into any place or company.  Trunk-maker
  like; more noise than work.

Trusty Trojan, or Trusty Trout.  A true friend.

Try on.  To endeavour.  To live by thieving.  Coves who
  try it on; professed thieves.

TRYNING.  See TRINING.

Tu QUOQUE.  The mother of all saints.

Tub thumper.  A presbyterian parson.

Tucked up.  Hanged.  A tucker up to an old bachelor or
  widower; a supposed mistress.

Tuft hunter.  A it anniversary parasite, one who courts
  the acquaintance of nobility, whose caps are adorned with
  a gold tuft.

Tumbler.  A cart; also a sharper employed to draw in
  pigeons to game; likewise a posture-master, or rope-dancer. 
  To shove the tumbler, or perhaps tumbril; to-be
  whipt at the cart’s tail.

To tune.  To beat:  his father tuned him delightfully: 
  perhaps from fetching a tune out of the person beaten, or
  from a comparison with the disagreeable sounds of instruments
  when tuning.

To tup.  To have carnal knowledge of a woman.

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