• TAUDY
n. 1808 Sc. obs. – a term of endearment for a child
• TAUM
n. 1. a fit of rage, a bad temper, a sullen, sulky mood; a hysterical fit, a tantrum …1808 Sc.
n. 2. a sudden feeling of faintness, a drowsy or sick turn …1887 Sc.
vb. to fall gently asleep; to faint; to become unconscious …1887 Sc. & Eng. dial. rare
• TAUNT
adj. 1. tall; too high in proportion to the breadth; …1736 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. pert, saucy; high and mighty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to toss the head …1820 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to sicken from eating disgusting food; to upset the digestion …1898 Sc.
• TAUNTIFY
vb. to taunt …1901 Eng. dial.
• TAUNTLE
vb. to toss the head …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAUNTON TURKEY
n. herring …1817 Amer. dial.
• TAUNTRIL
adj. bold, impudent …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
• TAUNTY
n. human excrement …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAUNTY-RAUNTY
n. fornication …1718 Sc.
• TAUPIE
adj. foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; foolishly thoughtless …1706 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. a giddy, scatterbrained, untidy, awkward, or careless person; an idle or slovenly person; generally applied to young women, occasionally to men …1728 Sc.
• TAUPIN
n. 1. 1898 Sc. – the root of a tree; the tap-root of a turnip, carrot, etc.
n. 2. 1905 Sc. – a long, thin person
• TAUPY
adj. 1823 Sc. – foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; tawdry
• TAURD
n. Bk1905 Sc. – a large piece
• TAURIDORE
n. 1618 – one who engages in a (Spanish) bullfight, esp. on horseback
• TAURIE
n. 1788 Sc. – a terrier dog
• TAURIRO
n. 1728 – a (Spanish) bullfighter (on foot)
• TAUROMACHIAN
adj. 1845 – pert. to bullfights
n. Bk1994 – a bullfighter
• TAUROPHOBIA
n. Bk1991 – an abnormal fear of bulls
• TAUSHENT
n. the youngest child in a family …1802 Amer. dial.
• TAUT
adj. 1. large; fat; ready to burst …1777 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of persons: strict, severe …1905 Sc.
adj. 3. of persons: proud or standoffish …1958 Sc.
n. a tangled matted tuft or lock of wool, hair, etc. …1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. to mat, to tangle, to make matted or tangled …1887 Sc.
• TAUTED
adj. matted, esp. of the hair; shaggy; ragged …1786 Sc.
• TAUTEGORICAL
adj. saying the same thing with different words …1825
• TAUTIE
adj. 1. shaggy, matted, tangled, unkempt; of persons or animals: having a rough, shaggy head or coat …1790 Sc.
adj. 2. of persons: cross-grained, crabbed …a1838 Sc.
• TAUTOLOGIZE
vb. to repeat the same thing in the same or different words; to say the same thing over and over …1607
• TAUTOOUSIOUS
adj. being absolutely the same …1846
• TAUTY
adj. shaggy, matted, tangled, unkempt; of persons or animals: having a rough, shaggy head or coat …1790 Sc.
• TAVE
n. 1. a difficulty, struggle, pinch; hard labour; the act of labouring hard …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 2. a hurry, a stir, a commotion …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 1. to rage; to storm; to fly at angrily …1671 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to toss; to throw oneself about, esp. to throw the hands about wildly as a person in fever does …1691 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to sprawl with the arms and legs; to kick or fidget with the feet …1781 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to walk heavily through dirt, snow, etc.; to wade; to struggle on …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to struggle; to tumble or wrestle in sport …1804 Sc.
vb. 6. to strive, to toil, to labour …1863 Sc.
vb. 7. to hurry along; to gad about …1864 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to distress; to over-tire; to labour under a disease; to recover from a very severe illness …1875 Sc.
vb. 9. to meddle …1900 Sc.
• TAVER
vb. 1. to roam about aimlessly or idly; to dally, to trifle, to waste time …1808 Sc.
vb. 2. to wander in mind or speech; to talk foolishly or incoherently; to rave; to become confused through weariness or exhaustion …1808 Sc.
vb. 3. to annoy, to vex, to irritate; to bewilder or confuse with much talking or questioning; to lead astray …1861 Sc.
• TAVERING
adj. restless in illness …1873 Eng. dial.
• TAVERN
n. 1. a cellar …1703 Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. a sandwich of ground or shredded beef served on a bun …1951 Amer. dial.
• TAVERN BELLY
n. 1. an oversized stomach, esp. from drinking beer or liquor …1943 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a person who drinks steadily or a great deal …1966 Amer. dial.
• TAVERNRY
n. tavern expenses …1792 Sc. obs.
• TAVERT
adj. 1. bewildered, mentally confused or played out, esp. through exhaustion or harassment …1808 Sc.
adj. 2. stupefied with drink; stupid, muddle-headed, slow-witted, half-witted …1818 Sc.
• TAVERTY
n. a stupid person …1833 Sc.
• TAVUS
adj. easily excited and flustered …1860 Eng. dial.
• TAW
n. 1. a thong of a whip, a strap-tail; a whip; a leather strap with thongs, used as an instrument of punishment in Scottish schools, the belt …1714 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
n. 2. difficulty, laborious effort; much ado …1825 Sc. obs.
n. 3. a narrow streak of light …1877 Sc.
n. 4. a mischievous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a strange man …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 6. difficulty; a great to-do …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 7. the marker used in the game of hopscotch …1988 Amer. dial.
n. 8. a child’s word for the penis …1972 Sc.
vb. 1. to work laboriously; to toil and moil; to struggle; to throw the limbs about in physical effort, to wrestle …1753 Sc.
vb. 2. to beat, to whip with a strap or ‘tawse’ …1790 Sc.
vb. 3. to tumble about; to spoil by too much handling; to pull, to lay hold of …1825 Sc.
vb. 4. to suck greedily and with continuance, as a hungry child at the breast …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to tie, to fasten …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to twist; to get crooked or out of shape; to crease, to wrinkle; to entwist, as the end of a rope …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAW-BESS
n. a slatternly woman …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
• TAWDERED UP
adj. dressed in vulgar finery …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAWDHERLY
adj. dressed in bad taste …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAWDRUM
n. a tawdry decoration …1680 nonce word obs.
• TAWDRY
adj. immodest; loose in conduct …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. cheap finery; cheap, sham jewellery …1876 Eng. dial.
• TAWDY
n. a child …Bk1905 Sc. obs.
• TAWEN
n. 1. a difficulty; a great do-do …Bk1905 Sc. obs.
n. 2. hesitation; reluctance …Bk1905 Sc. obs.
vb. to pull; to lay hold of; to tumble about; to spoil by overhandling …1810 Sc. obs.
• TAWIE
adj. of an animal: tame, tractable, docile, easy to handle and command …1785 Sc.
• TAWING
n. wrestling, struggling, a struggle, difficulty …1753 Sc.
• TAWL
n. a marble; a ‘taw’ …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to stroke or smooth down, as a cat’s back …1873 Eng. dial.
• TAWL DOWN
vb. to stroke or smooth down, as a cat’s back …1873 Eng. dial.
• TAWLING
n. the mark from which a marble is shot at the beginning of a game …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TAWM
n. 1. a fit of faintness or sickness …1846 Sc.
n. 2. an ungovernable fit of temper …1846 Sc.
n. 3. a fit of drowsiness …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 4. heartburn; flushings …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to swoon; to fall from faintness or sickness …1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to vomit …1790 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to fall gently asleep …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TAWM OVER
vb. 1. to swoon; to fall from faintness or sickness …1684 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to fall gently asleep …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TAWNIE
n. a bully …1898 Sc. sl.
vb. to bully …1898 Sc.
• TAWNLE
n. 1802 Sc. – a bonfire; any large fire
• TAWNY
n. 1. 1898 Sc. sl. – a bully
n. 2. Bk1905 Sc. – a dark-complexioned person; a mulatto
vb. 1898 Sc. – to bully
• TAWPENNY
n. Bk1905 N. Ireland – a hen with a tuft on its head
• TAWPIE
adj. 1706 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. – foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned, foolishly thoughtless; tawdry
n. 1. 1728 Sc. – a foolish, giddy, scatterbrained, untidy, awkward, or careless person; an idle or slovenly person; generally applied to young women
n. 2. 1885 Sc. – a foolish fellow; a blockhead
n. 3. Bk1905 Eng. dial. – a fidgety person
• TAWPY
adj. 1823 Sc. – foolish, awkward, slovenly, ill-conditioned; tawdry
• TAWSE
n. 1. 1721 Sc. & Eng. dial. – a leather strap cut into thongs at one end, used as a schoolmaster’s instrument of punishment
n. 2. B1900 Eng. dial. – a piece of tanned leather
vb. 1790 Sc. – to whip; to scourge, to belabour; to whip with a strap or ‘tawse’
• TAWSE-SWASHER
n1. 1885 Sc. – one who uses the ‘tawse’; a schoolmaster
• TAWSTOCK-GRACE
n. B1900 Eng. dial. obs. – the end
• TAWT
n. 1. a1838 Sc. – shock produced by a sudden gust of wind
n. 2. B1900 Sc. – a heavy dash; abuse by dragging or dashing about
vb. 1866 Sc. – of wind: to pull or knock about roughly; to drag and tug at so as to spoil; to dash to and fro or to the ground; to buffet
• TAWTIE
adj. 1790 Sc. – shaggy, matted, tangled, unkempt; of persons or animals: having a rough, shaggy head or coat
n. 1. 1793 Sc. – a potato
n. 2. B1900 Sc. – a stupid person
• TAWTY
adj. 1856 Sc. – of the hair, etc.: matted, shaggy
• TAWTY-HEADED
adj. 1831 Sc. – shaggy-headed
• TAX
n. 1929 Amer. dial. – the cost
vb. 1. 1806 Sc. – to find fault with; to scold
vb. 2. 1848 Amer. dial. – to charge, to make a claim upon one for an amount; to set the price, to cost
• A TAXI
n. 1930 US sl. – between five and fifteen years imprisonment
• TAXI DANCER
n. 1941 US sl. – a woman at a public dance hall who dances for hire
• TAXI SQUAD
n. 1966 US football usage – a group of professional football players who are not officially members of a team, although they may be paid to be available as a reserve
• TAX-MASTER
n. 1887 Sc. – a taskmaster
• TAYLIE
n. 1811 Sc. – a cut or slice of meat or boiling or roasting
• TAYLOR
n. a factory-made cigarette …1924 US sl.
• TAYSTRAGGELT
n. a loose, idle person …1864 Eng. dial.
• TAYTY
n. a seesaw …1825 Eng. dial. obs.
• TAY WATER WILLIE
n. an inhabitant of Dundee …1927 Sc.
• TAZ
n. a moustache …1951 sl.
• TAZIE
n. 1. a struggle, tussle, strenuous effort; a tiring or trying spell of work …1805 Sc.
n. 2. a mischievous child; a foolish, romping girl; a silly fellow …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• TAZZ
n. a tangle; esp. used of a rough head of hair; a heap of knots and loose ends …1880 Eng. dial.
• TAZZED
adj. overmatched; defeated; unable to accomplish one’s purpose …B1900 Eng. dial.
• TAZZLE
n. a tangle; a state of disorder; esp. used of the hair …1893 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to entangle …B1900 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to muddle, to mess up, to confuse; to make untidy or disorderly …1948 Amer. dial.
• TAZZLED
adj. 1. B1900 Eng. dial. – tangled, fuzzy, twisted, knotted
adj. 2. 1969 Amer. dial. – mixed together, confused
• TAZZLED UP
adj. 1969 Amer. dial. – mixed together, confused
• TAZZLEUP
vb. 1948 Amer. dial. – to muddle, to mess up, to confuse; to make untidy or disorderly
• TAZZY
adj. B1900 Eng. dial. – fuzzy, tangled, knotted
n. 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial. – a mischievous child; a foolish, romping girl; a silly fellow, a simpleton
• T.B.
n. 1. c1920 Aust. jocular usage – Two Beauts (large and shapely breasts)
n. 2. 1933 US sl. – a confidence trickster
n. 3. 1967 Amer. dial. – an overactive kidney (Tiny Bladder)
n. 4. 1943 Amer. dial. – an oversized stomach, esp. from drinking beer or liquor
• T-BONE
vb. 1980s US sl. – to hit a car, bus, etc. from the side
• T.C.B.
vb. 1950s sl., orig. African-American – to deal efficiently with matters in hand (Take Care of Business)
• TCHEW!
int. 1890 Ireland – an exclamation used to drive away a dog or to hound him on to another animal
• TCHEY!
int. 1890 Ireland – an exclamation used to call or quiet a cow
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