trull
Corruption of "troll" or "trollop," a dirty, slatternly woman, a prostitute of the lowest class.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
trump
A good fellow; "a regular TRUMP," a jolly or good-natured person—in allusion to a TRUMP card; "TRUMPS may turn up," i.e., fortune may yet favour me.
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.
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.
trunks
Short trousers worn above hose or tights.—Theatrical.
try it on
to test or experiment with something
try on
To endeavour. To live by thieving. Coves who try it on; professed thieves.
tub
The morning bath. To TUB has now become a regular verb, so far as colloquialism is concerned, though no one uses a TUB as the word was originally understood.
tub thumper
A presbyterian parson.
tub-thumping
Preaching or speech-making, from the old Puritan fashion of "holding forth" from a tub, or beer barrel, as a mark of their contempt for decorated pulpits.
tubs
Nickname for a butterman.
tuck
A schoolboy’s term for fruit, pastry, &c. TUCK IN, or TUCK OUT, a good meal.
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.
tuft-hunter
A hanger on to persons of quality or wealth—one who seeks the society of wealthy people. Originally University slang, but now general.
tufts
At the University, noblemen, who pay high fees and are distinguished by golden TUFTS, or tassels, in their caps.
tumble
To comprehend or understand. A coster was asked what he thought of Macbeth, and he replied, "The witches and the fighting was all very well, but the other moves I couldn’t TUMBLE to exactly; few on us can TUMBLE to the jaw-breakers; they licks us, they do."
tumble to pieces
To be safely delivered, as in childbirth.
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.
tune the old cow died of
An epithet for any ill-played or discordant piece of music. Originally the name of an old ballad, referred to by dramatists of Shakspeare’s time.
tuns
A name at Pembroke College, Oxford, for small silver cups, each containing half a pint. Sometimes a TUN had a handle with a whistle, which could not be blown till the cup was empty.
tup
A ram: figuratively, a cuckold.
tup running
A rural sport practised at wakes and fairs in Derbyshire; a ram, whose tail is well soaped and greased, is turned out to the multitude; any one that can take him by the tail, and hold him fast, is to have him for his own.
turf
On the turf; persons who keep running horses, or attend and bet at horse-races, are said to be on the turf.
turf
Horse-racing, and betting thereon; "on the TURF," one who occupies himself with race-horse business; said also of a street-walker, or nymph of the pavé.
turk
A cruel, hard-hearted man. Turkish treatment; barbarous usage. Turkish shore; Lambeth, Southwark, and Rotherhithe side of the Thames.
turkey merchants
Dealers in plundered or contraband silk. Poulterers are sometimes termed TURKEY MERCHANTS in remembrance of Horne Tooke’s answer to the boys at Eton, who wished in an aristocratic way to know what his father was: "A TURKEY MERCHANT," replied Tooke—his father was a poulterer. TURKEY MERCHANT, also, was formerly slang for a driver of turkeys or geese to market.
turn it up
To quit, change, abscond, or abandon; "Ned has TURNED IT UP," i.e., run away; "I intend TURNING IT UP," i.e., leaving my present abode or employment, or altering my course of life.
turn up
A street fight; a sudden leaving, or making off. An unexpected slice of luck. Among sporting men bookmakers are said to have a TURN UP when an unbacked horse wins.
turn-out
Personal show or appearance; a man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a good TURN-OUT.
turn-over
An apprentice who finishes with a second master the indentures he commenced with another, who has died or become bankrupt.
turncoat
One who has changed his party from interested motives.
turned over
Remanded by the magistrate or judge for want of evidence.
turned up
Acquitted; discharged.
turnip
An old-fashioned watch, so called from its general appearance, if of silver. Also called "a frying-pan." Old-fashioned gold watches are called "warming-pans."
turnip-pated
White or fair-haired.
turnpike man
A parson; because the clergy collect their tolls at our entrance into and exit from the world.
turnpike sailors
Beggars who go about dressed as sailors. A sarcastic reference to the scene of their chief voyages.
tusheroon
A crown piece, five shillings. Otherwise a bull or cartwheel.
tussle
A row, struggle, fight, or argument.
twaddle
Perplexity, confusion, or any thing else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of BORE. See BORE.
tweague
In a great tweague: in a great passion. Tweaguey; peevish, passionate.
twice-laid
A dish made out of cold fish and potatoes.—Sea. Compare BUBBLE AND SQUEAK, and RESURRECTION PIE.
twiddle poop
An effeminate looking fellow.
twig
Style. Prime TWIG, in good order and high spirits.
twiss
(IRISH) A Jordan, or pot de chambre. A Mr. Richard Twiss having in his "Travels" given a very unfavourable description of the Irish character, the inhabitants of Dublin, byway of revenge, thought proper to christen this utensil by his name--suffice it to say that the baptismal rites were not wanting at the ceremony.
twist
A mixture of half tea and half coffee; likewise brandy, beer, and eggs. A good twist; a good appetite. To twist it down apace; to eat heartily.
twist
Brandy and gin mixed.
All in a twitter; in a fright. Twittering is also the note of some small birds, such as the robin, &c.
"all in a TWITTER," in a fright or fidgety state.
two eighteener
An Americanism for a man or woman of the fastest kind—two minutes eighteen seconds, or close thereabouts, being the fastest time for a mile recorded in connexion with the Transatlantic national sport, trotting. "Two forty on a plank road," a once favourite expression with a similar meaning, derived from a feat of the famous trotting mare Flora Temple, has died out since trotting has become faster, and courses have been prepared on a different principle.
two handed put
The amorous congress.
two thieves beating a rogue
A man beating his hands against his sides to warm himself in cold weather; called also beating the booby, and cuffing Jonas.
two to one
The pawnbroker’s sign of three balls. So called because it is supposed by calculating humourists to be TWO TO ONE against the redemption of a pledged article.
two to one shop
A pawnbroker's: alluding to the three blue balls, the sign of that trade: or perhaps to its being two to one that the goods pledged are never redeemed.
two upon ten
Or TWO PUN’ TEN, an expression used by assistants to each other, in shops, when a customer of suspected honesty makes his appearance. The phrase refers to "two eyes upon ten fingers," shortened as a money term to TWO PUN’ TEN. When a supposed thief is present, one shopman asks the other if that TWO PUN’ (pound) TEN matter was ever settled. The man knows at once what is meant, and keeps a careful watch upon the person being served.
two-eyed-steak
A red-herring or bloater. Otherwise "Billingsgate pheasant."