Dictionary: TAN – TANZ

• T.A.N.
adj. 1980s US college sl. – aggressively masculine (Tough As Nails)

• TAN
adj. 20C US sl. – pert. to a mulatto
n. 1. 1865 Eng. dial. – a twig
n. 2. 1885 Eng. dial. – a rage; a tantrum
n. 3. 1895 Sc. – a temporary tent, hut, or cabin, such as set up by tinkers or gypsies
n. 4. 20C US sl. – a mulatto
n. 5. 2000s Irish sl. – an English person
vb. 1. 17C sl. – to hit, to attack
vb. 2. 1862 sl. – to beat someone with a whip, cane, etc., usually as a form of corporal punishment
vb. 3. 1874 Eng. dial. – to worry, to tease; to harp on one string
vb. 4. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to touch; to fondle
vb. 5. 1970s sl. – to do something aggressively or to extreme
vb. 6. 1988 Sc. sl. – to burgle somewhere
vb. 7. 1988 Sc. sl. – to consume something voraciously; to do something briskly or with urgency

• TANACLES
n. 1598 obs. rare – instruments of torture, like pincers

• TANBASTE
n. 1746 Eng. dial. – unruly behaviour; scuffling, struggling, pulling about
vb. 1790 Eng. dial. – to beat; to switch

• TANCEL
vb. to beat, to thrash; to ill-use …1895 Eng. dial.

• TANCELLOON
vb. to beat, to thrash …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANCHIMENTS
n. 1. apparatus or materials for doing or making anything …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. frippery; articles of finery; fanciful appliances …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANCHLE
n. a hard struggle, prolonged toil …1913 Sc.

• TANCY LEE
n. tea …20C rhyming sl.

• TAND
n. 1. a spark of fire; a piece of burning coal or peat; a firebrand …1866 Sc.
n. 2. a hereditary tinge, trace, stain; an inherited bad habit …1929 Sc.

• T. AND A.
adj. ‘tits and ass’; pert. to magazines or any publicly available material showing exposed or prominent breasts and buttocks …M20 US sl.

• TAN-DAY
 n. the second day of a fair; the day after a fair; a fair for fun …1873 Eng. dial. obs.

• TANDER
n. 1. a candlestick …c1881 Sc.
n. 2. a hereditary trace, stain; a tendency to revert to old failings …1930 Sc.

• TANDIDDLED
adj. imposed upon; bewildered; cheated …1876 Eng. dial.

• TANDLE
n. a large fire in the open air, a bonfire; esp. one made at certain seasons in the year, as on May Day, Midsummer Eve, or the first of November …1788 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.

• T AND T
vb. to tape record and trace the origin of a phone call …2001 US sl.

• TANDY
adj. tawny …1496 obs.

• TAN-FLAWING
n. the business of stripping the bark off trees …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANG
adj. straight, tight …1825 Sc.
n. 1. the tongue of a serpent, formerly thought to be the stinging organ; the sting of an insect …a1350 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
n. 2. large coarse seaweed …1547 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a suggestion; a slight trace or touch of something …1593
n. 4. a sharp point or spike; the pin of a buckle; one of the prongs of a fork; a prong or tine of a stag’s horn …1688 Eng. dial.
n. 5. the barb of a hook …1688 obs.
n. 6. an acute pain …1781 Eng. dial.
n. 7. anything ending in a point; a knife; a piece of iron used for fencing …1784 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 8. the spike of a knife or other instrument which fixes into the handle; the pointed end of a shoe-lace; any point …1876 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 9. the sound of a bell, esp. the sound produced by a slow, single stroke on a church bell; the stroke itself …1880 Eng. dial.
n. 10. the timbre of the voice; a twang …1899 Sc.
n. 11. a sweet and pleasant sound …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 12. the vagina …1960s US sl.
n. 13. someone who puts a damper on things, one who discourages or disheartens …1970s US college sl.
vb. 1. to pierce, to prick …a1400 obs.
vb. 2. to sting as a serpent or an insect …a1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to pierce with grief or compunction …a1400-50 obs.
vb. 4. to strike a bell or the like so as to cause it to emit a sharp loud ringing note …1556
vb. 5. to emit a sharp and loud ringing or clanging sound; to ring, to clang …1686
vb. 6. to tie …1825 Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to contaminate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to make a noise …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANG-COVERED
adj. of a rock: covered in seaweed …1888 Sc.

• TANG-COW
n. a bunch of seaweed …1889 Sc.

• TANGED
adj. forked, as a tree …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGENCE
n. the quality or condition of touching, touch; point of contact …1840 rare

• TANGENCY
n. state of contact; contiguity …1819

• TANGENT
adj. 1. ‘flying off at a tangent’; divergent, irrelevant, erratic …1787
adj. 2. pert. to touch …1802
adj. 3. touching, contiguous …1846

• TANGENTIAL
adj. 1. that merely touches a subject of matter; superficial …1825
adj. 2. erratic; divergent; digressive …1867

• TANGER
n. 1. a deceitful person …1886 Eng. dial.
n. 2. anything which stings …1898 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a young seal …Bk1905 Sc.

• TANGERINE DREAM
n. a type of MDMA …1996 UK sl.

• TANG-FISH
n. the seal …1809 Eng. dial.

• TANGHAL
n. a bag or satchel …1825 Sc. obs.

• TANGI
n. a party involving (heavy) drinking …20C NZ sl.

• TANGIBLE
adj. 1. capable of being touched; affecting the sense of touch; touchable …1589
adj. 2. that can be laid hold of or grasped by the mind, or dealt with as a fact; that can be realized or shown to have substance …1709
adj. 3. capable of being touched or affected emotionally …1813

• TANGIER TIGER
n. a low-grade variety of hashish from the foothills of the Rif Mountains …2003 UK sl.

• TANGING
adj. of a pain, etc.: shooting …1864 Eng. dial.

• TANGING-EDDER
n. the dragonfly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGING-ETHER
n. the dragonfly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGING-NADDER
n. the dragonfly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGING-NETHER
n. the dragonfly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGLE
adj. 1. long and limp; tall and loose-jointed …c1817 Sc.
adj. 2. too weary to stand …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 1. a general term for the larger seaweeds …1536
n. 2. a pendent icicle …1673 Sc.
n. 3. a tall, lank person …1768 Sc. obs.
n. 4. anything long and dangling, as a tress of hair, a long root-fibre, a torn loosely-pendent strip of cloth, etc. …1864 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a difficulty; a state of mental confusion or perplexity …1873 Sc.
n. 6. a golf club with a long slender shaft …1891 Sc.
n. 7. alcoholic liquor …L19 Aust. sl.
n. 8. a thriftless, slatternly person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 9. a conflict, quarrel, or disagreement …Bk2002 Aust. sl.
vb. 1. to involve or engage a person in affairs which encumber and hamper or embarrass, and from which it is difficult to get free; also, to embarrass, to confuse the brain, mind, conscience, etc. …a1340 obs.
vb. 2. to become involved in contention; to argue …1535 obs.
vb. 3. to give out a quick succession of ringing sounds …c1580 obs.
vb. 4. to add alcohol to a drink …M19 sl.
vb. 5. to fight …1928 sl., orig. US

• TANGLE ASS
vb. to fight …1920s US sl.

• TANGLE ASSHOLES
vb. to fight, to brawl …1920s US sl.

• TANGLE-BACKED
adj. long and lean in the back …1896 Sc.

• TANGLED
adj. drunk …L19 Aust. sl.

• TANGLE-EYE
n. a person with squint eyes; a cross-eyed person …1939 Amer. dial.

• TANGLE-EYED
adj. having squint eyes; cross-eyed …1892 Amer. dial.

• TANGLEFOOT
n. 1. any alcoholic drink …M19 colloq.
n. 2. inferior or illicit whisky …1859 Amer. dial.
n. 3. a place where underbrush, weeds, vines, and small trees grow together so that it’s nearly impossible to get through …1966 Amer. dial.
n. 4. strong, homemade wine …1986 Amer. dial.

• TANGLE-FOOTED
adj. 1. drunk …M19 sl.
adj. 2. having tangled feet, stumbling …1888

• TANGLEFOOT WHISKY
n. inferior or illicit whisky …1859 Amer. dial.

• TANGLE HOLES
vb. to fight, to brawl …1929 US sl.

• TANGLEHOOF
n. whisky …M19 sl.

• TANGLE-LEG
n. 1. whisky …M19 sl.
n. 2. strong beer …1880 Eng. dial.

• TANGLE-LEGGED
adj. drunk …M19 sl.

• TANGLE-LEGS
n. strong beer …1880 Eng. dial.

• TANGLE-LIKE
adj. lanky, gangling…c1850 Sc.

• TANGLEMENT
n. 1. a difficulty; anything involved or confused …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a tangle; a knot …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGLEMENTS
n. fanciful appliances; frippery; articles of female finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGLE-MONGER
n. a woman scandal-monger …L19 UK society sl.

• TANGLENESS
n. indecision; fluctuation; pliability of opinion …1819 Sc. obs.

• TANGLE PANTLEGS
vb. to brawl …1924 Amer. sl.

• TANGLER
n. a small-time crook who deals in smuggled or stolen property …1940s sl.

• TANGLES
n. a thriftless, slatternly person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANGLESOME
adj. 1. discontented; obstinate; fretful …1823 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. tangled, confused …1888

• TANGLE UP
vb. to embarrass …1898 Sc.

• TANGLE UP WITH
vb. to become involved with …1940s sl.

• TANGLE-WEED
n. a general term for the larger seaweeds …1834

• TANGLEWISE
adj. long and slender …1825 Sc.

• TANGLE WITH
vb. 1. to fight with …1910s sl.
vb. 2. to meet …1910s sl.
vb. 3. to become involved with …1940s sl.
vb. 4. to conflict, quarrel, or argue with …Bk2002 Aust. sl.

• TANGLE-WRACK
n. a general term for the larger seaweeds …1721

• TANGLIE
adj. long and slender …1812 Sc.

• TANGLING
adj. untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman …1790 Eng. dial.
n. contention …1535 obs.

• TANGLY
adj. 1. long and slender; flaccid, feeble, flabby …1812 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
adj. 2. untidy, slatternly; lounging, loitering; esp. used of a woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. tousled, tangled, entangled …19C Eng. dial.

• TANGO PIRATE
n. a gigolo …20C US sl.

• THE TANG O’ THE TRUMP
n. the most important person in any company, enterprise, or organization; the life and soul of a party, a movement, etc. …1887 Sc.

• TANG OUT
vb. to abandon; to put an end to …1970s US college sl.

• TANG-RANG
n. a noise; an uproar, esp. used of the noise formerly made when bees were swarming  …1840 Eng. dial.

• TANGS-LEGS
n. a person with long thin legs …1905 Sc.

• TANGVANGELS
n. the temples of the head …1929 Sc. obs.

• TANGYL
adj. angry and froward …c1440 obs.

• TAN IT
vb. to do something aggressively or to extreme …1970s sl.

• TANK
n. 1. a piece of deep water, natural or artificial; a pond or pool …1678 Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 2. a blow, a knock; a kick from a horse …1686 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a drinker, a drunkard …L19 sl.
n. 4. the top gallery of a theatre …1900 Amer. college sl.
n. 5. an idle amusement …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a worn-out old prostitute …1910s sl.
n. 7. a holding cell …1910s Can. & US prison sl.
n. 8. a bulletproof car …1930s US criminals’ sl.
n. 9. a pint of beer …1930s Aust. & US sl.
n. 10. a safe …1930s NZ criminals’ sl.
n. 11. the amount held by a drinking glass; hence, loosely, a drink, esp. of beer …1936 sl.
n. 12. a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 13. a prison, a prison wing …1950s Can. & US prison sl.
n. 14. an unattractive woman …1960s US college sl.
n. 15. a bank …1970s sl.
n. 16. money …2000s sl.
vb. 1. to make a ringing noise by striking anything together …1875 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to gossip; to chatter; to loiter idly about …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to drink heavily …L19 sl.
vb. 4. to strike; to knock; to beat with a switch or other light instrument …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to abandon deliberately, to give up, possibly for illicit monetary gain, esp. in boxing …1920s sl.
vb. 6. to fail …1920s sl.
vb. 7. to satisfy one’s appetite; to fill up with food …1970s sl.
vb. 8. to administer a paramilitary ‘punishment beating’ …1990s Ulster sl.
vb. 9. to rush towards, to attack …1990s sl.

• THE TANK
n. a large cell in a police station …1912 US sl.

• TANKA
n. a large container of soft drink …1980s US college sl.

• TANK ACT
vb. a corrupt sporting contest with a pre-arranged result …1930s sl.

• TANKARD-BEARER
n. one employed in drawing and carrying water from the public pumps and conduits …c1515 obs.

• TANK ARTIST
n. a safe-cracker …1930s NZ criminals’ sl.

• TANKBLOWER
n. a safe-cracker …1930s NZ criminals’ sl.

• TANKED
adj. 1. drunk …1893 sl., chiefly Brit.
adj. 2. satiated, filled up with …1960s sl.
adj. 3. intoxicated by a drug …1960s sl.

• TANKED TO THE WIDE
adj. drunk …L19 sl.

• TANKED UP
adj. drunk …1893 sl., chiefly Brit.

• TANKER
n. 1. a tea-kettle …1821 Sc.
n. 2. a big, lean, ugly person, animal, or thing …1866 Sc.
n. 3. a prizefighter who has agreed to accept cash in return for losing a fight …1920s sl.
n. 4. a second-rate person …1920s sl.
n. 5. a drinker of alcohol; a drunkard …1932 sl.
vb. to make a noise …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANKERABOGUS
n. a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANKER-MOUTHED
adj. having a wide or gaping mouth …1854 Sc.

• TANKEROUS
adj. cantankerous …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANKERSOME
adj. 1. fractious, fretful, cross, ill-humoured, ill-natured, peevish; unreasonably quarrelsome …B1900 Eng. dial. obs.
adj. 2. unruly, disobedient, misbehaving …1969 Amer. dial.

• TANK FIGHT
n. in boxing: a contest in which one fighter has been bribed to lose …1920s sl.

• TANKIE
n. 1. the navigator’s assistant, or the captain of the hold …1909 Brit. naval sl.
n. 2. a member of the former British Community Party who supported hardline (esp. interventionist) Soviet politics …1985 sl.
n. 3. a very fat person …1990s UK juvenile sl.

• TANKING
n. the act of concealing money on one’s person …1980s UK tramps’ sl.

• TANK INTO
vb. to rush towards, to attack …1990s sl.

• TANK JOB
n. 1. in boxing: a contest in which one fighter has been bribed to lose …1920s sl.
vb. 2. a corrupt sporting contest with a pre-arranged result …1930s sl.

• TANKLE
n. 1. a ringing noise; a tinkling …1894
n. 2. an icicle …1898 Sc.
vb. 1. to idle, to trifle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to repair; to tinker up …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANKLEMENTS
n. implements; litter; small ornaments; articles of finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANKLET
n. an icicle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANKLIMENTS
n. implements; litter; small ornaments; articles of finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANKLING
n. 1. a ringing noise; a tinkling …1864
n. 2. a dangling thing; a pendant …1874 Eng. dial.

• TANKMAN
n. a safe-cracker …1930s Aust. & NZ criminals’ sl.

• TANK STATION
n. a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• TANK TIME
n. time to start drinking …1980s US college sl.

• TANK TOWN
adj. insignificant, petty …1930s US sl.
n. a small or insignificant community, an out-of-the-way place; orig. one whose main function was to supply water for trains; also used as a nickname for such a community …1895 Amer. dial.

• TANK-UP
n. a heavy drinking session …1950s sl.
(verbs as ‘tank up’)
vb. 1. to drink alcohol …1902 sl.
vb. 2. to satisfy one’s appetite; to fill up with food …1970s sl.
vb. 3. to fill the tank of a motor vehicle with fuel …Bk2002 Aust. sl.

• TANKY
adj. drunk …1930s US sl.
n. 1. the navigator’s assistant, or the captain of the hold …1909 Brit. naval sl.
n. 2. a member of the former British Community Party who supported hardline (esp. interventionist)  Soviet politics …1985 sl.

• TANKY BAG
n. a purse, pouch, or sack …1950 Amer. dial.

• TANLE
n. a large fire in the open air, a bonfire; esp. one made at certain seasons in the year, as on May Day, Midsummer Eve, or the first of November …1788 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.

• TANLING
n. one tanned by the sun’s rays; a dark-skinned person …1611 rare

• TANNAKIN
n. a diminutive pet-form of the name Ann or Anna; specifically used for a German or Dutch girl …1557 obs.

• TANNED
adj. beaten, thrashed …1905 sl.

• TANNEL
n. 1. a bonfire, lit to burn garden rubbish or other rubbish, or to celebrate some popular event …1788 Sc.
n. 2. dried twigs or other vegetation used for fuel, firewood …1887 Sc.

• TANNER
n. 1. sixpence or a sixpenny piece …1811 Brit. sl.
n. 2. a small root of a tree; the fang of a tooth; the root of a corn, boil, etc. …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• TANNER CASE
n. a pocket …E19 sl.

• TANNERGRAM
n. a sixpenny telegram …L19 sl.

• TANNERY
n. 1. a pair of outsize boots or shoes …L19 US sl.
n. 2. a school …1910s Aust. sl.

• TANNIE
adj. sombre, gloomy …1880 Sc.
n. narrow-minded, puritan, small-town woman …1950s S. Afr. sl.

• TANNING
n. a beating, a thrashing …M19 sl.

• TANNYIKS
n. the teeth …1897 Sc.

• TAN ONE’S ARSE
vb. to hit someone with a cane, etc., esp. on the buttocks, as a punishment; to thrash or flog …c1670 sl.

• TAN ONE’S BACKSIDE
vb. to hit someone with a cane, etc., esp. on the buttocks, as a punishment; to thrash or flog …c1670 sl.

• TAN ONE’S BEHIND
vb. to hit repeatedly, to beat someone with a whip. cane, etc. as a form of corporal punishment …1938

• TAN ONE’S BOTTOM
vb. to hit repeatedly, to beat someone with a whip. cane, etc. as a form of corporal punishment …1938

• TAN ONE’S HIDE
vb. to hit someone with a cane, etc., esp. on the buttocks, as a punishment; to thrash or flog …c1670 sl.

• TAN-PAN-MI
n. ragged, old work-clothes, esp. when very filthy …1950s W. Indies sl.

• TAN PON IT LONG
n. sexual stamina (‘stand up on it for a long time’) …1980s W. Indies & Black British teen sl.

• TANQUAM
n. 1. something that has only an apparent existence; a mere seeming; an unreal thing or appearance …1654
n. 2. in the University of Cambridge: a person of worth and learning, that is fit company for the Fellows of Colleges, etc. …a1661

• TANRACKET
n. a racket, noise, confusion; a noisy crowd …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANS
n. articles of dress, etc., of a tan colour; esp. tan shoes or boots …1902

• TANSEL
vb. to beat, to thrash; to ill-use …1895 Eng. dial.

• TANSHIK
n. a tooth, esp. a newly-grown tooth in a child’s mouth …1897 Sc.

• TANSILOON
vb. to beat, to thrash …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TAN SO BACK
phr. calm down, stop being so aggressive …1990s W. Indies sl.

• TAN-STUDY
phr. calm down, relax …1990s W. Indies sl.

• TANSY
n. a merrymaking in a public-house …1857 Eng. dial.

• TANSY-CAKE
n. a merrymaking …1846 Eng. dial.

• TANSY-FACE
n. a freckled face …1972 Sc.

• TANSY-FACED
adj. having a yellow complexion …1614

• TANT
n. 1. a rage, tamper …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 2. the utmost exertion or effort …c1920 Sc. obs.
vb. 1. to disorder, to cause indigestion in, to upset the stomach or appetite …1866 Sc.
vb. 2. of wind: to storm, to blow in great gusts …1886 Sc.
vb. 3. to argue or dispute in a quarrelsome manner, to rage …1887 Sc.
vb. 4. to place anything out of the perpendicular …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to potter or idle about …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANTABLET
n. a tart or round piece of pastry …1630 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• TANTABLIN
n. a tart or round piece of pastry …1630 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• TANTABOMING
adj. faulty; crooked; out of place …1889 Eng. dial.

• TANTADDLEMENT
n. a trifle …1887 Eng. dial.

• TANTADLIN
n. 1. 1630 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a small tart; an apple-dumpling; light delicacies, esp. sweets in contradistinction to more substantial food  
n. 2. 1654 obs. – a lump of excrement; a turd
n. 3. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a contemptuous term for anything strange, fanciful, or fantastic  

• TANTADLIN-TART
n. 1. 1630 obs. exc. Eng. dial. – a small light tart; any kind of dainty; fancy food  
n. 2. 1785 obs. – a lump of excrement; a turd
n. 3. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – unpalatable food
n. 4. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – cow-dung  

• TANTALEAN; TANTALIAN
adj. 1605 – pertaining to Tantalus; only apparently reachable; tantalizing, elusive

• TANTALIC
adj. 1882 – only apparently reachable; tantalizing  

• TANTALISM
n. c1614 obs. rare – punishment or torment like that of Tantalus (mythical king condemned, for revealing the secrets of the gods, to stand in Tartarus up to his chin in water, which constantly receded as he stooped to drink, and with branches of food hanging above him which ever fled his grasp); tantalization

• TANTAMOUNT
n. 1637 obs. – that which amounts to as much, or comes to the same thing; something equivalent to; an equivalent
vb. 1. 1628 obs. – to amount to as much; to come to the same thing; to be or become equivalent
vb. 2. 1659 obs. – to amount or come up to something; to equal

• TANTAMOUNTINGLY
adv. 1655 obs. – equivalently

• TAN-TAN
n. 1. 1653 – a bell  
n. 2. 1893 – the sound of a kettle-drum  

• TANTARA
n. 1. a fanfare, or flourish of trumpets; hence, any similar sound …1584
n. 2. a noise; a disturbance; an outcry …1874 Eng. dial.

• TANTARABOBS
n. a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANTARABOBUS
n. 1. a name for the devil …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a noisy, playful child …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANTARAN
n. noise, uproar …1887 Eng. dial.

• TANTARARA
n. a fanfare, or flourish of trumpets; hence, any similar sound …1843

• TANTARARARA
n. a fanfare, or flourish of trumpets; hence, any similar sound …1750

• TANTARIA
n. an abusive, loud, shrewish woman …20C W. Indies sl.

• TANTARRA
n. a noise; a disturbance; an outcry …1874 Eng. dial.

• TANTARROW
n. a pie made of meat, apples, etc.; something similar to a ‘squab-pie’ …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANTASSA, TANTASSA PIG, TOW A ROW, A ROW!
int. a call to pigs …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

• TANTATLIN(G)
n. a small tart; an apple-dumpling; light delicacies, esp. sweets in contradistinction to more substantial food …1857 Eng. dial.

• TANTAWDHERLY
adj. tawdry, slovenly …1889 Eng. dial.

• TANTER
n. a rage; a tantrum …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial. & Sc.
vb. to argue, to quarrel, to dispute in a captious manner, to rage …1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• TANTERBOMING
adj. faulty; crooked; out of place …1889 Eng. dial.

• TANTERIN
adj. odd, occasional …1921 Sc.

• TANTERLICK
n. a severe stroke; a hard blow …1808 Sc. obs.

• TANTERSOME
adj. 1921 – exasperating, annoying, vexatious → Sc.

• TANTERWALLOPS
n. 1. 1850 – hanging tatters or rags → Sc.
n. 2. 1972 – a tall, thin man → Sc.

• TAN THE BEVY
vb. 1970 – to drink heavily → sl.

• TAN THE LAND
vb. 1895 – to walk quickly; to cover the land with shoe-leather → Eng. dial.

• TANTHONY-PIG
n. 1728 – the smallest pig of a litter; the favourite one supposed to be dedicated to and under the special protection of St. Anthony, the patron saint of swineherds → Eng. dial.

• TANTHUNDER
n. 1870 – a commotion → Eng. dial. obs.

• TAN THUNDERBOLT
n. 1. 1942 – Olympic track star Jesse Owens → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. 1942 – prizefighter Joe Louis → Amer. sl. (Bk.)

• TAN THUNDERER
n. 1942 – prizefighter Joe Louis → Amer. sl. (Bk.)

• TANTI!
int. 1590 – an exclamation of contempt or depreciation

• TANTIBOGUS
n. 1. 1912 – the devil → Amer. dial.
n. 2. 1966 – a boogeyman; a hobgoblin that is used to threaten children and make them behave → Amer. dial.

• TANTILEIRUM
n. 1827 – a big grotesque object or erection → Sc.

• TANTILLATION
n. 1651 – a trifling space of time; a moment of time → obs.

• TAN-TIN!
int. 1721 – imitation of the sound of a bell → obs.

• TANTIVY
adv. 1641 – at full gallop; swiftly, quickly, hastily; headlong → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
int. 1697 – an imitation of the sound of galloping or scudding feet
n. 1. 1658 – a rapid gallop; a ride at this pace
n. 2. 1905 – a rage → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 3. 1905 – quick speed; great haste → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. 1681 – to ride full tilt; to hurry away → obs.
vb. 2. 1942 – to depart hurriedly → Amer. sl. (Bk.)

• TANTLE
vb. 1. 1790 – to dangle after; to attend officiously → Eng. dial.
vb. 2. 1889 – to walk slowly and feebly; to totter, as a young child; to dawdle, to loiter, to waste time; trifle, to potter about → Eng. dial.
vb. 3. 1898 – to pet, to fondle, to caress; to humour a child; to pay much attention to; to nurse and feed with care → Eng. dial.

• TANTLING-JOB
n. 1905 – a small, trifling job; one that does not require all one’s energy → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TANTOBLIN
n. 1654 – a lump of excrement; a turd → obs.

• TANTOBLIN TART
n. M17 – a piece of excrement

• TANTONY
n. 1. 1659 – the smallest pig of a litter
n. 2. 1659 – a servile flatterer; a parasite; one who obsequiously follows another
n. 3. 1905 – a small hand-bell → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1675 – to follow closely → obs.

• TANTONYBELL
n. 1567 – a hand-bell; a small church bell

• TANTONY PIG
n. 1. 1659 – the smallest pig of a litter
n. 2. 1738 – a servile flatterer; a parasite; one who obsequiously follows another

• TANTOOZLE
vb. 1905 – to whip soundly → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TAN TORNADO
n. 1942 – prizefighter Joe Louis → Amer. sl. (Bk.)

• TANTRABOBUS
n. 1. 1905 – a name for the devil → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 2. 1905 – a noisy, playful child → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TAN TRACK
n. L19 – the anus → sl.

• TAN-TRACKER
n. 1930 – a homosexual man → sl., orig. Aust.

• TAN-TRACK RIDER
n. 1930 – a homosexual man → sl., orig. Aust.

• TANTREMS
n. M19 – pranks, games, jollification → sl.

• TANTRIL
n. 1. 1684 – an idle person, esp. a girl; a vagrant, a vagabond; a gypsy → Eng. dial.
n. 2. 1905 – a freak, a whim → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TAN TROUSER SNAKE
n. 1930 – the penis → sl., orig. Aust.

• TANTRUM
n. 1. ..L17 – the penis → sl.
n. 2. 1714 – a burst of petulant ill-temper, seen as childish or actually produced by a child
n. 3. 1808 – affected airs, palavers → Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. 1824 – a foolish fancy; a whim, vagary; a fluster → Sc. & Eng. dial.

• TANTRUMBOBUS
n. 1905 – a name for the devil → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TANTRUM-FIT
n. 1870 – a fit of ill temper → Eng. dial.

• TANTRUMS
n. 1905 – high or affected airs → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TANTRUMY
adj. 1905 – passionate; given to bursts of ill temper → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TANTRUN
vb. 1905 – to potter about; to drudge or plod slowly, as old people → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TANTRUPS
n. 1890 – ill-humoured disturbances → Eng. dial.

• TANTUM
n. 1. 1901 – a fixed quantity; a due proportion; a stint of work, etc. → Eng. dial.
n. 2. 1905 – a tantrum → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 3. 1905 – state, condition → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TANTUPLE
adj. 1656 – that is so many times another quantity; equimultiple → obs.

• TANTWIVY
adv. 1785 – at full gallop; swiftly; headlong → obs.
n. 1905 – quick speed; great haste → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

• TANTY
adj. 1. 1880 – ready to take offense, touchy → Sc.
adj. 2. 1880 – unstable, ready to fall, giddy → Sc.

• TANTY-JAGGY
adj. 1827 – offensive, sarcastic → Sc.

• TANTY-RANTY
n. 1821 – fornication → Sc. obs.

• TAN-YARD
n. 1845 – the poor-house → Sc. sl. obs.

• TANYEL
n. 1930 – a tramp → Sc.

• TANYOK
n. 18C – a halfpenny → sl.