The Online Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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TABBY
	An old maid; either from Tabitha, a formal antiquated name; or else from a tabby cat, old maids being often compared to cats. To drive Tab; to go out on a party of pleasure with a wife and family.
TACE
	Silence, hold your tongue. TACE is Latin for a candle; a jocular admonition to be silent on any subject.
TACKLE
	A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mistress good clothes. A man's tackle: the genitals.
TAFFY
	Davy. A general name for a Welchman, St. David being the tutelar saint of Wales. Taffy's day; the first of March, St. David's day.
TAG-RAG AND BOBTAIL
	An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like a tantony pig: to follow one wherever one goes, just as St. Anthony is followed by his pig.
TAIL
	A prostitute. Also, a sword.
TAKEN IN
	Imposed on, cheated.
TALE TELLERS
	Persons said to have been formerly hired to tell wonderful stories of giants and fairies, to lull their hearers to sleep. Talesman; the author of a story or report: I'll tell you my tale, and my talesman. Tale bearers; mischief makers, incendiaries in families.
TALL BOY
	A bottle, or two-quart pot.
TALLY MEN
	Brokers that let out clothes to the women of the town. See RABBIT SUCKERS.
TALLYWAGS, or TARRYWAGS
	A man's testicles.
TAME
	To run tame about a house; to live familiarly in a family with which one is upon a visit. Tame army; the city trained bands.
TANDEM
	A two-wheeled chaise, buggy, or noddy, drawn by two horses, one before the other: that is, AT LENGTH.
TANGIER
	A room in Newgate, where debtors were confined, hence called Tangerines.
TANNER
	A sixpence. The kiddey tipped the rattling cove a tanner for luck; the lad gave the coachman sixpence for drink.
TANTADLIN TART
	A sirreverence, human excrement.
TANTRUMS
	Pet, or passion: madam was in her tantrums.
TANTWIVY
	Away they went tantwivy; away they went full speed. Tantwivy was the sound of the hunting horn in full cry, or that of a post horn.
TAP
	A gentle blow. A tap on the shoulder;-an-arrest. To tap a girl; to be the first seducer: in allusion to a beer barrel. To tap a guinea; to get it changed.
TAPE
	Red tape; brandy. Blue or white tape; gin.
TAPLASH
	Thick and bad beer.
TAPPERS
	Shoulder tappers: bailiffs.
TAR
	Don't lose a sheep for a halfpennyworth of tar: tar is used to mark sheep. A jack tar; a sailor.
TARADIDDLE
	A fib, or falsity.
TARPAWLIN
	A coarse cloth tarred over: also, figuratively, a sailor.
TARRING AND FEATHERING
	A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of loyalty: such delinquents being "stripped naked", were daubed all over wilh tar, and afterwards put into a hogshead of feathers.
TART
	Sour, sharp, quick, pert.
TARTAR
	To catch a Tartar; to attack one of superior strength or abilities. This saying originated from a story of an Irish-soldier in the Imperial service, who, in a battle against the Turks, called out to his comrade that he had caught a Tartar. 'Bring him along then,' said he. 'He won't come,' answered Paddy. 'Then come along yourself,' replied his comrade. 'Arrah,' cried he, 'but he won't let me.' - A Tartar is also an adept at any feat, or game: he is quite a Tartar at cricket, or billiards.
TAT
	Tit for tat; an equivalent.
TAT MONGER
	One that uses false dice.
TATLER
	A watch. To flash a tatler: to wear a watch.
TATS
	False dice.
TATTERDEMALION
	A ragged fellow, whose clothes hang all in tatters.
TATTOO
	A beat of the drum, of signal for soldiers to go to their quarters, and a direction to the sutlers to close the tap, anddtew nomore liquor for them; it is generally beat at nine in summer and eight in winter. The devil's tattoo; beating with one's foot against the ground, as done by persons in low spirits.
TAW
	A schoolboy's game, played with small round balls made of stone dust, catted marbles. I'll be one upon your taw presently; a species of threat.
TAWDRY
	Garish, gawdy, with lace or staring and discordant colours: a term said to be derived from the shrine and altar of St. Audrey (an Isle of Ely saintess), which for finery exceeded all others thereabouts, so as to become proverbial; whence any fine dressed man or woman said to be all St Audrey, and by contraction, all tawdry.
TAWED
	Beaten,
TAYLE
	See TAIL.
TAYLE DRAWERS
	Thieves who snatch gentlemens swords from their sides. He drew the cull's tayle rumly; he snatched away the gentleman's sword cleverly.
TAYLOR
	Nine taylors make a man; an ancient and common saying, originating from the effeminacy of their employment; or, as some have it, from nine taylors having been robbed by one man; according to others, from the speech of a woollendraper, meaning that the custom of nine, taylors would make or enrich one man - A London taylor, rated to furnish half a man to the Trained Bands, asking how that could possibly be done? was answered, By sending four, journeymen and and apprentice. - Put a taylor, a weaver, and a miller into a sack, shake them well, And the first that puts out his head is certainly a thief. - A taylor is frequently styled pricklouse, assaults on those vermin with their needles.
TAYLORS GOOSE
	An iron with which, when heated, press down the seams of clothes.
TEA GUELAND
	Ireland. Teaguelanders; Irishmen.
TEA VOIDER
	A chamber pot.
TEARS OF THE TANKARD
	The drippings of liquor on a man's waistcoat.
TEDDY MY GODSON
	An address to a supposed simple fellow, or nysey,
TEIZE
	To-nap the teize; to receive a whipping.
TEMPLE PICKLING
	Pumping a bailiff; a punishment formerly administered to any of that fraternity caught exercising their functions within the limits of Temple.
TEN IN THE HUNDRED
	An usurer; more than five in the hundred being deemed usurious interest.
TEN TOES
	See BAYARD OF TEN TOES.
TENANT AT WILL
	One whose wife usually fetches him from the alehouse.
TENANT FOR LIFE
	A married man; i.e. possessed of a woman for life.
TENDER PARNELL
	A tender creature, fearful of the least puff of wind or drop of rain. As tender as Parnell, who broke her finger in a posset drink.
TERMAGANT
	An outrageous scold from Termagantes, a cruel Pagan, formerly represented in diners shows and entertainments, where being dressed a la Turque, in long clothes, he was mistaken for a furious woman.
TERRA FIRMA
	An estate in land.
TESTER
	A sixpence: from TESTON, a coin with a head on it.
TETBURY PORTION
	A cunt and a clap.
THAMES
	He will not find out a way to set the Thames on fire; he will not make any wonderful discoveries, he is no conjuror.
THATCH-GALLOWS
	A rogue, or man of bad character.
THICK
	Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers.
THIEF
	You are a thief and a murderer, you have killed a baboon and stole his face; vulgar abuse.
THIEF IN A CANDLE
	Part of the wick or snuff, which falling on the tallow, burns and melts it, and causing it to gutter, thus steals it away.
THIEF TAKERS
	Fellows who associate with all kinds of villains, in order to betray them, when they have committed any of those crimes which entitle the persons taking them to a handsome reward, called blood money. It is the business of these thief takers to furnish subjects for a handsome execution, at the end of every sessions.
THIMBLE
	A watch. The swell flashes a rum thimble; the gentleman sports a fine watch.
THINGSTABLE
	Mr. Thingstable; Mr. Constable: a ludicrous affectation of delicacy in avoiding the pronunciation of the first syllable in the title of that officer, which in sound has some similarity to an indecent monosyllable.
THINGUMBOB
	Mr. Thingumbob; a vulgar address or nomination to any person whose name is unknown, the same as Mr. What-d'ye-cal'em. Thingumbobs; testicles.
THIRDING
	A custom practised at the universities, where two thirds of the original price is allowed by the upholsterers to the students for household goods returned to them within the year.
THIRTEENER
	A shilling in Ireland, which there passes for thirteen pence.
THOMAS
	Man Thomas; a man's penis.
THOMOND
	Like Lord Thomond's cocks, all on one side. Lord Thomond's cock-feeder, an Irishman, being entrusted with some cocks which were matched for a considerable sum, the night before the battle shut them all together in one room, concluding that as they were all on the same side, they would not disagree: the consequence was, they were most of them either killed or lamed before the morning.
THORNBACK
	An old maid.
THORNS
	To be or sit upon thorns; to be uneasy, impatient, anxious for an event.
THOROUGH CHURCHMAN
	A person who goes in at one door of a church, and out at the other, without stopping.
THOROUGH COUGH
	Coughing and breaking wind backwards at the same time.
THOROUGH GO NIMBLE
	A looseness, a violent purging.
THOROUGH STITCH
	To go thorough stitch; to stick at nothing; over shoes, over boots.
THOROUGH-GOOD-NATURED WENCH
	One who being asked to sit down, will lie down.
THOUGHT
	What did thought do? lay'in bed and beshat himself, and thought he was up; reproof to any one who excuses himself for any breach of positive orders, by pleading that he thought to the contrary.
THREE THREADS
	Half common ale, mixed with stale and double beer.
THREE TO ONE
	He is playing three to one, though sure to lose; said of one engaged in the amorous congress.
THREE-LEGGED MARE, or STOOL
	The gallows, formerly consisting of three posts, over which were laid three transverse beams. This clumsy machine has lately given place to an elegant contrivance, called the NEW DROP, by which the use of that vulgar vehicle a cart, or mechanical instrument a ladder, is also avoided; the patients being left suspended by the dropping down of that part of the floor on which they stand. This invention was first made use of for a peer. See DROP.
THREE-PENNY UPRIGHT
	A retailer of love, who, for the sum mentioned, dispenses her favours standing against a wall.
THREPS
	Threepence.
THROTTLE
	To strangle.
THROTTLE
	The throat, or gullet.
THRUM
	To play on any instrument sttfnged with wire. A thrummer of wire; a player on the spinet, harpsichord, of guitar.
THRUMS
	Threepence.
THUMB
	By rule of thumb: to do any thing by dint of practice. To kiss one's thumb instead of the book; a vulgar expedient to avoid perjury in taking a false oath.
THUMP
	A blow. This is better than a thump on the back with a stone; said on giving any one a drink of good liquor on a cold morning. Thatch, thistle, thunder, and thump; words to the Irish, like the Shibboleth of the Hebrews.
THUMPING
	Great! a thumping boy.
THWACK
	A great blow with a stick across the shoulders.
TIB
	A young lass
TIB OF THE BUTTERY
	A goose. Saint Tibb's evening; the evening of the last day, or day of judgment: he will pay you on St. Tibb's eve. IRISH.
TIBBY
	A cat.
TICK
	To run o'tick; take up goods upon trust, to run in debt. Tick; a watch. See SESSIONS PAPERS.
TICKLE PITCKEB
	A thirsty fellow, a sot.
TICKLE TAIL
	A rod, or schoolmaster. A man's penis.
TICKLE TEXT
	A parson.
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.
TILBURY
	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.
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 tit or tid bit; a delicate morsel. Tommy tit; a smart lively little fellow.
TIT FOR TAT
	An equivalent.
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.
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.
TO TOP
	To cheat, or trick: also to insult: he thought to have topped upon me. Top; the signal among taylors for snuffing the candles: he who last pronounces that word word, is obliged to get up and perform the operation. - to be topped; to be hanged. The cove was topped for smashing queerscreens; he was hanged for uttering forged bank notes.
TO WAP
	To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
TO WAP
	To copulate, to beat. If she wont wap for a winne, let her trine for a make; if she won't lie with a man for a penny, let her hang for a halfpenny. Mort wap-apace; a woman of experience, or very expert at the sport.
TO-MORROW COME NEVER
	When two Sundays come together; never.
TOAD
	Toad in a hole; meat baked or boiled in pye-crust. He or she sits like a toad on a chopping-block; a saying of any who sits ill on horseback. As much need of it as a toad of a side-pocket; said of a person who desires any thing for which he has no real occasion. As full of money as a toad is of feathers.
TOAD EATER
	A poor female relation, and humble companion, or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the standing butt, on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off, and all ill humours vented. This appellation is derived from a mountebank's servant, on whom all experiments used to be made in public by the doctor, his master; among which was the eating of toads, formerly supposed poisonous. Swallowing toads is here figuratively meant for swallowing or putting up with insults, as disagreeable to a person of feeling as toads to the stomach.
TOAST
	A health; also a beautiful woman whose health is often drank by men. The origin of this term (as it is said) was this: a beautiful lady bathing in a cold bath, one of her admirers out of gallantry drank some of the water: whereupon another of her lovers observed, he never drank in the morning, but he would kiss the toast, and immediately saluted the lady.
TOASTING IRON, or CHEESE TOASTER
	A sword.
TOBACCO
	A plant, once in great estimation as a medicine: Tobacco hic Will make you well if you be sick. Tobacco hic If you be well will make you sick.
TOBY LAY
	The highway. High toby man; a highway-man. Low toby man; a footpad.
TODDLE
	To walk away. The cove was touting, but stagging the traps he toddled; be was looking out, and feeing the officers he walked away.
TODDY
	Originally the juice of the cocoa tree, and afterwards rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg.
TODGE
	Beat all to a todge: said of anything beat to mash.
TOFSY-TURVY
	The top side the other way; i.e. the wrong side upwards; some explain it, the top side turf ways, turf being always laid the wrong side upwards.
TOGE
	A coat.
TOGEMANS
	The same.
TOGS
	Clothes. The swell is rum-togged. The gentleman is handsomely dressed.
TOKEN
	The plague: also the venereal disease. She tipped him the token; she gave him a clap or pox.
TOL, or TOLEDO
	A sword: from Spanish swords made at Toledo, which place was famous for sword blades of an extraordinary temper.
TOLLIBAN RIG
	A species of cheat carried on by a woman, assuming the character of a dumb and deaf conjuror.
TOM CONY
	A simple fellow.
TOM LONG
	A tiresome story teller. It is coming by Tom Long, the carrier; said of any thing that has been long expected.
TOM OF BEDLAM
	The same as Abram man.
TOM THUMB
	A dwarf, a little hop-o'my-thumb.
TOM TURDMAN
	A night man, one who empties necessary houses.
TOMBOY
	A romping girl, who prefers the amusement used by boys to those of her own sex.
TOMMY
	Soft Tommy, or white Tommy; bread is so called by sailors, to distinguish it from biscuit. Brown Tommy: ammunition bread for soldiers; or brown bread given to convicts at the hulks.
TONGUE
	Tongue enough for two sets of teeth: said of a talkative person. As old as my tongue, and a little older than my teeth; a dovetail in answer to the question, How old are you? Tongue pad; a scold, or nimble-tongued person.
TONY
	A silly fellow, or ninny. A mere tony: a simpleton.
TOOL
	The instrument of any person or faction, a cat's paw. See CATS PAW.
TOOLS
	The private parts of a man.
TOOTH Music
	Chewing.
TOOTH-PICK
	A large stick. An ironical expression.
TOP DIVER
	A lover of women. An old top diver; one who has loved old hat in his time.
TOP HEAVY
	Drunk.
TOP LIGHTS
	The eyes. Blast your top lights. See CURSE.
TOP ROPES
	To sway away on all top ropes; to live riotously or extravagantly.
TOP SAIL
	He paid his debts at Portsmouth with the topsail; i.e. he went to. sea and left them unpaid. SCT soldiers are said to pay off their scores with the drum; that is, by marching away.
TOPER
	One that loves his bottle, a soaker. SEE TO SOAK.
TOPPER
	A violent blow on the head.
TOPPING CHEAT
	The gallows.
TOPPING COVE
	The hangman.
TOPPING FELLOW
	One at the top or head of his profession.
TOPPING MAN
	A rich man.
TORCHECUL
	Bumfodder.
TORMENTER OF CATGUT
	A fiddler.
TORMENTER OF SHEEP SKIN
	A drummer.
TORY
	An advocate for absolute monarchy and church power; also an Irish vagabond, robber, Or rapparee.
TOSS OFF
	Manual pollution.
TOSS POT
	A drunkard.
TOTTY-HEADED
	Giddy, hare-brained.
TOUCH
	To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in the head; insane, crazy. To touch up a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. Touch bone and whistle; any one having broken wind backwards, according to the vulgar law, may be pinched by any of the company till he has touched bone (i.e. his teeth) and whistled.
TOUCH BUN FOR LUCK
	See BUN.
TOUTING
	(From TUERI, to look about) Publicans fore-stalling guests, or meeting them on the road, and begging their custom; also thieves or smugglers looking out to see that the coast is clear. Touting ken; the bar of a public house.
TOW ROW
	A grenadier. The tow row club; a club or society of the grenadier officers of the line.
TOWEL
	An oaken towel, a cudgel. To rub one down with an oaken towel; to beat or cudgel him.
TOWER
	Clipped money: they have been round the tower with it.
TOWER
	To overlook, to rise aloft as in a high tower.
TOWER HILL PLAY
	A slap on the face, and a kick on the breech.
TOWN
	A woman of the town; a prostitute. To be on the town: to live by prostitution.
TOWN BULL
	A common whoremaster. To roar like a town bull; to cry or bellow aloud.
TRACK
	To go. Track up the dancers; go up stairs.
TRADESMEN
	Thieves. Clever tradesmen; good thieves.
TRADING JUSTICES
	Broken mechanics, discharged footmen, and other low fellows, smuggled into the commission of the peace, who subsist by fomenting disputes, granting warrants, and otherwise retailing justice; to the honour of the present times, these nuisances are by no means, so common as formerly.
TRANSLATORS
	Sellers of old mended shoes and boots, between coblers and shoemakers.
TRANSMOGRAPHY, or TRANSMIGRIFY
	To patch up vamp, or alter.
TRANSNEAR
	To come up with any body.
TRANTER
	See CROCKER.
TRAP
	To understand trap; to know one's own interest.
TRAP STICKS
	Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball.
TRAPAN
	To inveigle, or ensnare.
TRAPES
	A slatternly woman, a careless sluttish woman.
TRAPS
	Constables and thief-takers.
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.
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.
TROLL
	To loiter or saunter about.
TROLLOP
	A lusty coarse sluttish woman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TUP
	To have carnal knowledge of a woman.
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.
TURD
	There were four turds for dinner: stir turd, hold turd, tread turd, and mus-turd: to wit, a hog's face, feet and chitterlings, with mustard. He will never shite a seaman's turd; i.e. he will never make a good seaman.
TURF
	On the turf; persons who keep running horses, or attend and bet at horse-races, are said to be on the turf.
TURK
	A cruel, hard-hearted man. Turkish treatment; barbarous usage. Turkish shore; Lambeth, Southwark, and Rotherhithe side of the Thames.
TURKEY MERCHANT
	A poulterer.
TURNCOAT
	One who has changed his party from interested motives.
TURNED UP
	Acquitted; discharged.
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.
TUZZY-MUZZY
	The monosyllable.
TWADDLE
	Perplexity, confusion, or any thing else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of BORE. See BORE.
TWANGEY, or STANGEY
	A north country name for a taylor.
TWEAGUE
	In a great tweague: in a great passion. Tweaguey; peevish, passionate.
TWEAK
	To pull: to tweak any one's nose.
TWELVER
	A shilling.
TWIDDLE POOP
	An effeminate looking fellow.
TWIDDLE-DIDDLES
	Testicles.
TWIG
	To observe. Twig the cull, he is peery; observe the fellow, he is watching us. Also to disengage, snap asunder, or break off. To twig the darbies; to knock off the irons.
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. On a nephew of this gentleman the following epigram was made by a friend of ouis: Perish the country, yet my name Shall ne'er in STORY be forgot, But still the more increase in fame, The more the country GOES TO POT.
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.
TWISTED
	Executed, hanged.
TWIT
	To reproach a person, or remind him of favours conferred.
TWITTER
	All in a twitter; in a fright. Twittering is also the note of some small birds, such as the robin, etc.
TWITTOC
	Two.
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 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-HANDED
	Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
TYBURN BLOSSOM
	A young thief or pickpocket, who in time will ripen into fruit borne by the deadly never-green.
TYBURN TIPPET
	A halter; see Latimer's sermon before. Edward VI. A. D. 1549.
TYBURN TOP, or FORETOP
	A wig with the foretop combed over the eyes in a knowing style; such being much worn by the gentlemen pads, scamps, divers, and other knowing hands.
TYE
	A neckcloth.
TYKE
	A dog, also a clown; a Yorkshire tyke-
TYNEY
	See TINEY.