tray trip
An ancient game like Scotch hop, played on a pavement marked out with chalk into different compartments.
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tree
"up a TREE," in temporary difficulties,—out of the way. American expression, derived from racoon or bear-hunting. When Bruin is TREED, or is forced up a TREE by the dogs, it means that then the tug of war begins. See ’COON. Hence when an opponent is fairly run to bay, and can by no evasion get off, he is said to be TREED. These expressions originated with Colonel Crockett, of backwoods celebrity.
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.
triangles
A slang term for delirium tremens, during a fit of which everything appears out of the square.
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.
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.
trimmings
The necessary adjuncts to anything cooked, but specially applied to a boiled leg of mutton, as turnips, potatoes, bread, beer, salt, &c. Bets are frequently made for a leg of mutton and TRIMMINGS. Or one person will forfeit the mutton if another will "stand the TRIMMINGS." It is generally a supper feast, held in a public-house, and the rule is for the landlord to charge as TRIMMINGS everything, except the mutton, placed on the table previous to the removal of the cloth.
trine
To hang; also Tyburn.
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.
trollies
Or TROLLY-CARTS, term given by costermongers to a species of narrow carts, which can either be drawn by a donkey or driven by hand.
trolling
Sauntering or idling, hence TROLL and TROLLOCKS, an idle slut, a "moll," which see.
trollop
A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
trollop
A slatternly woman, a prostitute.
trolly lolly
Coarse lace once much in fashion.
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.
trosseno
Literally, "one sort," but professional slangists use it to imply anything that is bad. TROSS, among costermongers, means anything bad. It is probably a corruption of trash. Possibly, however, the constant use of the words "dab-tros" may have led them in their unthinking way to imagine that the latter word will do by itself.
trot
An old trot; a decrepit old woman. A dog trot; a gentle pace.
trot
To "run up," to oppose, to bid against at an auction. Private buyers at auctions know from experience how general is the opposition against them from dealers, "knock-outs," and other habitués of sales, who regard the rooms as their own peculiar domain. "We TROTTED him up nicely, didn’t we?" i.e., we made him (the private buyer) pay dearly for what he bought.
trot out
To introduce or exhibit something familiar or old-fashioned
trotter
A tailor’s man who goes round for orders.—University.
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.
trotters
Feet. Sheep’s TROTTERS, boiled sheep’s feet, a favourite street delicacy.
truck
To exchange, swop, or barter; also a wheel such as ship's guns are placed upon.
truck
A hat—from the cap on the extremity of a mast.—Sea.
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.
trull
Corruption of "troll" or "trollop," a dirty, slatternly woman, a prostitute of the lowest class.
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.
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