• TASH
adj. fretful, captious, hard to please; ill-natured; forward …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 1. a reproach, affront; disgrace …1709 Sc.
n. 2. a clasp; a buckle, ribbon, or fastening for clothes; a pendant …1772 Sc.
n. 3. a stain, spot, smudge, blemish, or flaw on any object; a spoiling or defacing, damage to clothes, flowers, or the like …1808 Sc.
n. 4. an imputation or blot on one’s character; a slur, stigma …1808 Sc.
n. 5. saucy, pert speech; impudence …1815 Sc.
n. 6. a dirty, fatiguing journey …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to scold, to upbraid …1807 Sc.
vb. 2. to stain, to soil, to tarnish, to dirty, to deface; to fray, to batter, to dishevel, to knock about, to treat roughly or carelessly so as to spoil …1808 Sc.
vb. 3. to slander; to cast a stain on a person; to upbraid, to taunt …1827 Sc.. obs.
vb. 4. to soil, to tarnish, to stain, to dirty; to bespatter; to spoil slightly …1829 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to fatigue, to weary with hard work …1886 Sc.
• TASH ABOUT
vb. to throw about so as to injure …1895 Sc.
• TASHED
adj. soiled, tarnished …1794 Sc.
• TASHEL
n. a good-for-nothing man or woman; a drunkard; a slovenly woman; a troublesome child …1790 Eng. dial.
• TASHELLIE
adj. of animals: having the hair or wool matted with dirt …1824 Sc. obs.
• TASHELTON
n. one who in walking covers himself with mire …1837 Eng. dial. obs.
• TASHIE
n. a ragged, down-at-heel person; a sloven …1972 Sc.
• TASHIN’
adj. rough, destructive …1892 Sc.
n. rough treatment, blemishing; a stain or blemish …1808 Sc.
• TASHLED
adj. bespattered with wet …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• TASHY
adj. 1. dressed in a slovenly manner; having a tattered, slovenly appearance; unkempt …1825 Sc.
adj. 2. of wind: blustery …1972 Sc.
• TASK
n. a school lesson …1901 Eng. dial.
• TASKED
adj. much fatigued with hard work …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
• TASKER’S-CORN
n. a blow with a whip …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TASKIT
adj. much fatigued with hard work …Bk1905 Sc. obs.
• TASKIT-LIKE
adj. having the appearance of being greatly fatigued …1804 Sc.
• TASS
n. a cup, bowl, goblet, drinking vessel, esp. for spirits …1704 Sc.
n. 2. a large bunch; a cluster of flowers …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 3. a small heap of earth …Bk1905 Sc.
• TASSEL
n. 1. a good-for-nothing man or woman; a drunkard; a slovenly woman; a troublesome child …1790 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a silly fellow …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• TASSEL-RAG
n. 1. a mild term of reproach …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. the catkins of the willow, Salix Caprea …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TASSET
n. an ill-behaved woman …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TASSEY
n. 1. a mischievous child; a foolish, romping girl; a silly fellow …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a Tasmanian …1899 Aust. sl.
• TASSIE
n. 1. a cup, a glass, bowl, goblet, drinking vessel, esp. for spirits …1788 Sc.
n. 2. a Tasmanian …1899 Aust. sl.
• TASSIL
n. a shapeless, ugly object; anything of little value …1890 Eng. dial.
• TASSLE
n. a buffeting or knocking about, rough handling, a severe brush or tussle …1808 Sc.
• TASSOCK
n. a good-for-nothing person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TASSY
adj. nice, pleasant …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a mischievous child; a foolish, romping girl; a silly fellow …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a Tasmanian …1899 Aust. sl.
• TASTE
n. 1. a small quantity of alcoholic drink, a dram …1880 Sc.
n. 2. a small dainty or delicacy eaten as a relish to plainer food …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a drink …1919 US sl.
n. 4. a small amount; a bit …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to drink liquor in small amounts; to have a tipple …1779 Sc.
vb. 2. to smell …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 3. to relish, to enjoy, to appreciate …1791 Sc.
vb. 4. to possess carnally …Bk1903 sl.
• TASTEFUL
adj. having many different tastes or hobbies …1899 Eng. dial.
• TASTE LIKE MORE
vb. to taste very good, making one eager to have more …1869 Amer. dial.
• TASTE LIKE MORE’S BEHIND
vb. to taste very good, making one eager to have more …1869 Amer. dial.
• TASTELY
adj. savoury, appetizing …1876 Eng. dial.
• TASTE OF THE KEG
vb. to be stale, to seem monotonous …1923 Amer. dial.
• TASTE OF THE LAMP
vb. of a literary composition: to be the manifest product of nocturnal or laborious study …1615 obs.
• TASTE OF THE WATER
vb. of beer: to be very poor …1823 Sc.
• TASTE ONE’S MOUTH
vb. to please one’s sense of taste …1909 Amer. dial.
• TASTER
n. a dram; a sip of spirits …1788 Sc. obs.
► TASTESOME adj. pleasant to the taste; appetizing, toothsome → 1598 obs.
• TASTRIL
n. a small keg or barrel …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TASTY
adj. 1. neat, natty; with dainty habits; attractive; agreeable …1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. having a criminal record …1975 Brit. sl.
• TAT
n. 1. a rag …1851 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a child’s word for father …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a tuft of hair, wool, etc.; a matted mass; a small quantity …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. a year-old sheep …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a shabby person …1936 sl.
n. 6. a small amount, a dab; something very small; a short distance …1940 Amer. dial.
n. 7. something of inferior quality …1951 sl.
vb. 1. to gather rags …1851 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. a very slight tap or blow …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to mat; to entangle; to run into tufts, as hair, wool, etc. …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to touch gently …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to gossip, to tattle …1953 Amer. dial.
• TA-TA
int. 1. goodbye! …1823 orig. nursery usage
int. 2. thanks! …1884 Amer. dial.
n. 1. a hat …1923 theatrical sl.
n. 2. a machine gun …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. to thank …c1977 Amer. dial.
• TATA
int. an exclamation used to frighten children when naughty …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 1. excrement; filth …1777 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. an aunt, used as a title or term of address …1969 French Canadian
• TATCH
n. 1. a clasp; a buckle, ribbon, or fastening for clothes; a pendant …1772 Sc.
n. 2. an unpleasant flavour …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATCHY
adj. touchy, irritable, peevish, fretful, cross …1746 Eng. dial.
• TATE
adv. somewhat …1722 Sc.
n. a small amount or portion of anything …1824 Sc.
• TATER
n. 1. 1759 sl., orig. Eng. dial. – potato
n. 2. 1960s baseball usage – a home run
• TATER AND POINT
n. M19 – a meal made up almost entirely of potatoes
• TATER-PILLIN’
n. 20C rhyming sl. – a shilling
• TATERS (IN THE MOULD)
adj. 20C rhyming sl. – cold
• TATER-TRAP
n. E19 sl. – the mouth
• TATER TUNK
n. 1966 Amer. dial. – mashed potatoes
• TATHER
n. 1. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a tangle; a complicated state of things
n. 2. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – frog’s spawn
vb. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – to entangle; to twist; to knot; to involve
• TATHERUM-A-DYAL
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – complicated or unintelligible language
• TATHERY
adj. 1892 Eng. dial. – unkempt
• TATHERY-OUTERY
adj. Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs. – tawdry, flaunting
• TATHIE
n. a child’s name for father, daddy …1930 Sc.
• TATHIL
n. a table …1825 Sc.
• TATIE
n. 1. potato …1759 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
n. 2. the head, used as a term of contempt …1878 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-APPLE
n. the round seed-bulb of the potato …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-BALL
n. the round seed-bulb of the potato …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-BEETLE
n. a potato-masher …1890 Sc.
• TATIE-BING
n. a heap of potatoes …1892 Sc.
• TATIE-BLOTS
n. water in which potatoes have been boiled …1897 Sc.
• TATIE-BOGGLE
n. a scarecrow in a potato field …1897 Sc.
• TATIE-BOGIE
n. a scarecrow in a potato field …Bk1905 Sc.
• TATIE-BOODIE
n. a scarecrow in a potato field …1889 Sc.
• TATIE-BROO
n. potato soup …1892 Sc.
• TATIE-BROTH
. potato soup …1901 Sc.
• TATIE-BURY
n. a heap of potatoes partially buried and entirely covered with earth, for protection from the frost …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-CHAMPER
n. a potato-masher …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-CHAPPER
n. a potato-masher …1873 Sc.
• TATIE-CHOPPER
n. a potato-masher …1873 Sc.
• TATIE-CRAB
n. the fruit of a potato; a potato-top …1867 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-DOOLIE
n. a scarecrow in a potato field …1833 Sc. Eng. dial.
• TATIE-FIELD
n. a potato field or plot …1891 Sc.
• TATIE-GARTH
n. a potato field or plot …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-GETTEN
n. potato-gathering …1895 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-GRAVE
n. a heap of potatoes partially buried and entirely covered with earth, for protection from the frost …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-GROUND
n. a potato field or plot …1892 Sc.
• TATIE-HASH
n. potato soup …1870 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-HEEL
n. a hole in the heel of a stocking …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-HOCK
n. a heap of potatoes partially buried and entirely covered with earth, for protection from the frost …Bk1905 Sc.
• TATIE-HOWKER
n. a potato-digger …1885 Sc.
• TATIE-KAIL
n. potato soup …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-PAIRER
n. a peeler of potatoes …1898 Sc.
• TATIE-PATCH
n. a potato field or plot …1900 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-PIE
n. a heap of potatoes …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-PIE-TALK
n. conversation between women sorting potatoes round a ‘pie’; any loose or foolish gossip …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-PIT
n. a potato field or plot …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-POKE
n. a sack for holding potatoes …Bk1905 Sc.
• TATIE-POURINGS
n. water in which potatoes have been boiled …1873 Sc.
• TATIES-AND-DAB
n. potatoes boiled in their skins and eaten with salt …1883 Sc.
• TATIE-TOP
n. a term of contempt …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-TRAP
n. the mouth; the stomach …1885 Eng. dial.
• TATIE-TUMP
n. a heap of potatoes partially buried and entirely covered with earth, for protection from the frost …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATLOCK
n. a trailing ragged part of the hem of a worn skirt; the matted tufts of wool at a sheep’s tail …1900 Sc.
• TATO
n. potato …1759 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
• TATOE-TRAP
n. the mouth …E19 sl.
• TATOO
vb. to scold, to abuse …1827 Ireland
• TATOR
n. potato …1759 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
• TATS
n. 1. dice …Bk1896 sl.
n. 2. odds and ends; small victuals …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. teeth, esp. false teeth …1906 Aust. sl.
• TATSHIE
adj. dressed in a slovenly manner; having a tattered, slovenly appearance; unkempt …1825 Sc.
n. a ragged, down-at-heel person; a sloven …1972 Sc.
• TATSY
n. a child’s word for father …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATT
n. 1. a shabby person …1936 sl.
n. 2. something of inferior quality …1951 sl.
• TATTA
n. a child’s word for father …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTARAT
n. an unruly person; one wanting in stability …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTED
adj. of hair, wool, etc.: matted, entangled, rough, shaggy, unkempt …1721 Sc.
• TATTER
adj. 1. tattered, ragged …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. scolding, cross, peevish, ill-tempered, grumblingly discontented …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a hurry …1876 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a collector of rags, bones, etc. …1898 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a rage; a long-continued condition of grumbling discontent …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to scold; to chide; to be furious or cross …1842 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to talk idly, to prate, to chatter; to scold …1854 Sc. obs.
vb. 3. to hurry; to bustle; to go at a great speed …1862 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to make a fool of anyone …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTER-CAN
n. a termagant; a kicking cow …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTER-CLOUT
n. a poorly dressed, ragged person; a ragamuffin; a beggar …1874 Eng. dial.
• TATTERED AS A FOAL
adj. of a person: ragged; also, rough, shaggy …c1340 obs.
• TATTERER
n. 1. a voluble talker, a chatterbox …1885 Sc.
n. 2. a scold …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTER-FOAL
n. a hobgoblin which appears under the form of a rough-coated horse or foal; also used of other ghostly animals …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTER-FUDDED
adj. with one’s trousers in rags …1880 Sc.
• TATTERIN’
n. a scolding, rebuke …1915 Sc.
• TATTER-RAGS
n. a poorly dressed, ragged person; a ragamuffin; a beggar …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTERS
n. a scold …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTERTALE
n. a tattletale …1966 Amer. dial.
vb. to tattle …2005 Amer. dial.
• TATTER-WALLETS
n. a poorly dressed, ragged person; a ragamuffin; a beggar …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TATTER-WALLOP
n. 1. fluttering rags …1887 Sc.
n. 2. a ragged person, a tatterdemalion …1910 Sc.
vb. to hang or flutter in rags …1866 Sc.
• TATTER-WALLOPS
n. 1. rags, tatters, torn, flapping clothing; shreds in general; a ragged garment …1801 Sc.
n. 2. a woman with ragged clothes; an indecorous woman; a tatterdemalion …1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TATTERY
adj. 1. tattered, ragged, frayed out …1835 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. cross, peevish, ill-natured, ill-tempered …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. very windy …1954 Sc.
• TATTIE
n. 1. potato …1759 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a stupid person, a simpleton …1866 Sc.
n. 3. a contemptuous term for the head …1878 Sc.
• THE TATTIE
n. the right person, one who can be trusted or relied on …1895 Sc.
• TATTIE-BLOTS
n. water in which potatoes have been boiled …1897 Sc.
• TATTIE-BOGIE
n. a scarecrow; one set up in a potato field …1905 Sc.
• TATTIE-BOGLE
n. 1. a scarecrow; one set up in a potato field …1825 Sc.
n. 2. a ragged, unkempt, or grotesquely-dressed person; a coward …1972 Sc.
• TATTIE-BOODIE
n. 1. a scarecrow; one set up in a potato field …1829 Sc.
n. 2. a stupid or cowardly person …1972 Sc.
• TATTIE-CHAMPER
n. a potato masher …1840 Sc.
• TATTIE DOOLIE
n. 1. a scarecrow …1833 Sc.
n. 2. a ragamuffin …1954 Sc.
• TATTIE-HEAD
n. a stupid head, a stupid person …1897 Sc.
• TATTIE-PEEL
n. potato peelings …1863 Sc.
• TATTIE-TRAP
n. the mouth …1885 Sc.
• TATTLE
vb. to turn over and soil; to handle carelessly, as to overhandle a pet animal …1958 Sc.
• TATTLE-BOX
n. a chatterbox; a prating gossip …1911 sl.
• TATTLEBUDGET
n. a tattletale …1966 Amer. dial.
• TATTOGEY
n. a user of loaded dice …Bk1994 Brit. sl.
• TATTOO
n. a pony …Bk1892 Anglo-Indian sl.
• TATTOO NEEDLE
n. a machine gun …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TATTRELS
n. rags, tatters …1805 Sc.
• TATTS
n. teeth, esp. false teeth …1906 Aust. sl.
• TATTY
adj. 1. 1513 Sc. – of hair: tangled, matted
adj. 2. 1533 Sc. – of an animal or skin: shaggy with matted hair
adj. 3. B1900 Eng. dial. – testy, cross
adj. 4. 1933 US sl. – inferior; cheap; shoddy
• TATTY-BYE
phr. 1971 Brit. sl. – goodbye
• TATTY-JACK
n. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a sheep with a ragged and tattered fleece
• TATUR
n. 1759 sl., orig. Eng. dial. – potato
• TATUR-TRAP
n. E19 sl. – the mouth
• TATY
n. 1759 sl., orig. Eng. dial. – potato
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