Reverse Dictionary: TOP – TQ

TOP – ADJECTIVES
– CAPITAL pert. to the head or top …a1225 obs.
– DECACUMINATED having the tops lopped off …1727 obs.
– HEADMOST top-most …Bk1902 Sc.

TOP – ADVERBS
– ACOP on the top; on high …1610 obs. rare

TOP – NOUNS
– CACUMEN a top or point
– HEADLET the top of anything …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– SUMMITY the topmost part, the top; the summit …1375 obs. or arch.
– TIPPY-TOP the very top, the top of everything …1876 Eng. dial.
– TIP-TOP the very top; the highest point or part; the extreme summit …1702 colloq.

TOP – VERBS
– DECACUMINATE to take off the top of anything …1656 obs.

TOP-HEAVY – ADJECTIVES
– top-heavy LOGY 1917 Amer. dial.

TOPLESS – NOUNS, PERSON
– a topless barmaid SKIMPY 2003 Aust. sl.

TOPPLE, TOPPLING – ADJECTIVES
– TOPPLETY toppling over easily …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.

TOPPLE etc. – VERBS
– TERVE; TIRVE to turn; esp. to turn upside down, to topple over, to fall down; also, fig. to turn to some course or action …c1400 obs.
– THROPPLE to topple …1892 Eng. dial.
– TIPPLE to tumble, or topple over …1847 Eng. dial.
– TOTTLE to fall, to topple; to cause to fall …1838 Amer. dial.
– WALT to totter; to lean to one side; to topple over; to overturn, as a cart or carriage …c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

TOPSY-TURVY – ADJECTIVES
– ARSY-VARSY preposterous; topsy-turvy …M17
– BOTTOM UPWARDS upside down, topsy-turvy …1954 Amer. dial.
– BOTTOMSIDE UP upside down, topsy-turvy …1966 Amer. dial.
– BOTTOMSIDE UPWARDS upside down, topsy-turvy …1858 Amer. dial.
– COCK-EYED absurd, ridiculous; topsy-turvy …1896 UK sl.
– REEL-RALL in confusion; topsy-turvy …1827 Sc. & N. Ireland

TOPSY-TURVY – ADVERBS
– ARSE OVER HEAD head over heels, topsy-turvy …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ARSE-OVER-TEAKETTLE head over heels, end over end, topsy-turvy; in confusion …1955 Amer. sl.
– ARSE UPWARDS upside down, topsy-turvy, back to front …1896 Eng. dial.
– ARSEY-VARSY;  ARSEY-VERSEY;  ARSEY-VERSY;  ARSY-VARSEY upside down; topsy-turvy; head over heels; backwards-front; reversed; confused …1539
– ASS-OVER-APPETITE head-over-heels, topsy-turvy …1943 Amer. dial.
– ASS-OVER-APPLECART head-over-heels, topsy-turvy …1943 Amer. dial.
– ASS-OVER-ELBOW head over heels, end over end, topsy-turvy; in confusion …1972 Amer. sl.
– ASS-OVER-ENDWAYS head-over-heels, topsy-turvy …1943 Amer. dial.
– ASS-OVER-HEAD head-over-heels, topsy-turvy …1899 Amer. dial.
– ASS-OVER-TEAKETTLE head over heels, end over end, topsy-turvy; in confusion …1948 Amer. sl.
– ASS-OVER-TIN CUP(S) head over heels, end over end, topsy-turvy; in confusion …1963 Amer. sl.
– ASS-OVER-TIP head over heels, end over end, topsy-turvy; in confusion …1976 Amer. sl.
– ASS-OVER-TIT head over heels, end over end, topsy-turvy; in confusion …1938 Amer. sl.
– HAGGERDASH in confusion, in a disorderly state; in a topsy-turvy manner …1808 Sc. obs.
– HAGGERDECASH in confusion, in a disorderly state; in a topsy-turvy manner …1808 Sc. obs.
– HASH-METRAM in a state of disorder; topsy-turvy …Bk1902 Sc.
– HEADS AND THRAWARTS in confusion, pell-mell, topsy-turvy …Bk1902 Sc.
– HIDDIE-GIDDIE topsy-turvy, in a confused or disorderly state; hither and thither …1535 Sc.
– REEL-RALL in confusion; topsy-turvy …1827 Sc. & N. Ireland
– TAP-AN-TEERIE topsy-turvy, upside-down …1827 Sc.
– TAPER-TAIL topsy-turvy …1793 Sc. obs.
– TAPSALTEERIE;  TAPSALTEERY topsy-turvy, upside-down …1827 Sc.
– TAPSEE-TEERIE;  TAPSIE-TEERIE topsy-turvy, upside-down …1827 Sc.
– TARSIE-VERSIE topsy-turvy, in confusion or disorder; walking backwards …1838 Sc.
– TERSY-VERSY topsy-turvy, in confusion or disorder; walking backwards …1838 Eng. dial.
– TOPSY-TEERY topsy-turvy, upside-down …1827 Irish
– TOSSY-TAIL topsy-turvy …B1900 Eng. dial.
– UPSIE-TURVY topsy-turvy …a1592 obs.

TOPSY-TURVY – NOUNS
– TAPSALTEERIE a topsy-turvy manner; a state of disorder …1898 Sc.

TOPSY-TURVY – NOUNS, PERSON
– RAMMACK a person who turns things topsy-turvy …19C Eng. dial.

TOPSY-TURVY – VERBS
– HYSTERO-PROTERIZE to invert the natural order; to make something topsy-turvy …a1834 obs. rare
– MAKE HAY OF to throw into confusion, to turn topsy-turvy, to upset …1703
– RAMFEEZLE to put into a state of disorder; to turn topsy-turvy …1887 Sc.
– RAMFOOZLE to disorder, to turn topsy-turvy …1887 Sc.
– RAMMACK to turn things topsy-turvy …19C Eng. dial.
– RAMMICK to turn things topsy-turvy …19C Eng. dial.
– RAMSACK to romp; to turn topsy-turvy …1892 Eng. dial.
– THROW THE HOUSE OUT OF THE WINDOW to make a great commotion, noise, or disturbance; to cause great disorder and confusion; to turn everything topsy-turvy …1621

TORCH – NOUNS
– a small torch used for giving light MATCH c1595 obs.

TORMENT, TORMENTED, TORMENTING – ADJECTIVES
– BALE actively evil, deadly, dire, pernicious, destructive, fatal, cruel, tormenting …a1000 obs.
– BAMFERING tormenting, shrewish …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– CRUCIATORY torturing, tormenting …1660 obs. rare
– HEART-SCALDED troubled, tormented, afflicted …1843 Ireland 
– MARTYRED tormented, mutilated …1580 obs.
– PAINFUL of a person: inflicting pain or punishment; tormenting …c1450 rare
– YETERIE;  YETRIE severe, excessive, tormenting …Bk1905 Sc.

TORMENT etc. – NOUNS
– BALE physical suffering, torment, pain, woe …c1250 obs.
– CHAIN LIGHTNING n. torment or misery, esp. a severe scolding; hell …1866 US sl.
– GEHENNA the place of future torment; hell …1623
– GEHENNE a place of torment; hell …1481 obs. rare
– HEART-RENDING terrible distress; mental anguish; torment …1854
– MARTYRDOM torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering …c1386
– MARTYRE torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering …c1330 obs.
– MARTYRY suffering, torment …1677 obs.
– TANTALISM 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 …c1614 obs. rare
– TARVIZZEEN struggling; contending, scolding, tormenting …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
– TINTREGH torment, torture …c893 obs.

TORMENT etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– BADGERER a person who badgers another …L19
– BAITER a tormenter; a tease …1611
– GAD-FLY one who irritates, torments, or worries another …1649
– RACKER a tormentor; a ‘murderer’ ..Bk1911
– TORMENTRESS a female who torments …1426 

TORMENT etc. – VERBS
– BADGER to torment; to tease; to nag …L18
– BAMFER to worry, to torment …1895 Eng. dial.
– HAG to torment or terrify as a hag; to trouble as the nightmare …1598 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HAG-RIDE to harass, to torment, esp. during sleep; to cause nightmares or nightmare-like experiences …1661 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– HARRISH to harass, to worry, to torment, to trouble; to ravage …1843 Ireland & Eng. dial.
– HARRY to worry, to goad, to torment, to harass; to maltreat, to ill-use, to persecute; to worry mentally; to bother …a1400-50
– HAUL to worry, to torment, to pester …1678 obs. exc. Amer. dial.
– LICK THE MOLASSES OFF ONE’S BISCUIT to frustrate, to anger, to torment …1978 Amer. dial.
– LICK THE RED OFF ONE’S CANDY to frustrate, to anger, to torment …1972 Amer. dial.
– MARTYR to inflict grievous suffering or pain upon; to torment, to torture …c1240
– MAWK to baffle, to tease, to torment …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MIRACLE to tease, to torment, to hurt …1896 Sc.  
– MOMMOCK to harass, to tease, to annoy, to torment, to impose on …1946 Amer. dial.
– MUMMICK to harass, to tease, to impose on, to annoy, to torment …1966 Amer. dial.
– OFPINE to torment …a1300 obs. rare
– QUELM to torment; to kill, to destroy …c825 obs.
– RAG to annoy, to tease, to torment …1808 Eng. dial. & sl.
– RAIM to affect with anguish, to torment …c1380 obs. rare
– TAG to tease, to torment …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
– TERRIFY to annoy, to irritate; to tease, to worry; to importune; to torment, to pain …1839 Eng. dial.
– TERRY to provoke, to torment …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
– TINTREGHE to torment, to torture …c1175 obs.
– TO-TRAY to torment exceedingly …a1250 obs.
– WHIP to vex, to torment; to punish, to chastise; to administer severe satire or reproof to; to castigate …1530

TORN – ADJECTIVES
– BETORN torn; torn about the sides, tattered …a1300 obs.
– HACKLE UP of things: torn, damaged, untidy …20C W. Indies sl.
– ILLACERABLE not liable to be torn or rent …1656 obs. rare
– RAFT torn off …1818 rare
– RASSED torn off …1513 obs. rare

TORN – NOUNS
– MAMMOCK a scrap, a shred, a broken or torn piece …a1529 arch. or Eng. dial.
– SCALLOP a small torn piece …1876 Eng. dial.
– TANGLE anything hanging, as a torn piece of a dress …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

TORNADO – NOUNS
– a terrestrial tornado, esp. one accompanied by torrential rain; broadly, a violent downpour of rain WATERSPOUT 1822 Amer. dial.
– a tornado DIPPER 1968 Amer. dial.
– a tornado HELL WIND 1929 Amer. dial.

TORPEDO – NOUNS
– a torpedo FISH 1928 sl.
– a torpedo KIPPER 1953 sl.
– a torpedo MOULDY 1916 Brit. sl.
– a torpedo TIN FISH 1915 sl.
– a torpedo TORP 1929 sl.

TORPID – ADJECTIVES
– torpid; disinclined to act, listless; lacking emotional sensibility TORPULENT 1657 obs. rare

TORTOISE – NOUNS
– a tortoise or turtle SHELLPAD 1562 obs.
– the shell of a tortoise HUT 1698 obs.

TORTURE, TORTURED, TORTURING – ADJECTIVES
– CRUCIATORY torturing, tormenting …1660 obs. rare
– RACKING torturing causing intense pain, physical or mental …1667
– YBRAD tortured as with fire …a1310 obs.
 
TORTURE etc. – NOUNS
– CARNIFICE butchery, murder, torture …1657 obs. rare
– CASCHIELAWIS an instrument of torture, said to have been invented by the ‘Master of Orkney’ in 1596; its action appears to have been forcibly to draw together the body and limbs of the victim, and hold him in this cramped position …1596 Sc. obs.
– GEHENNA a place of torture; a prison …1594
– GEHENNE judicial torture …1646 obs. rare
– HUMMING BIRD a type of torture using electricity …L19 US prison sl.
– IMPALATION the torture or punishment of impaling …1744 obs. rare
– MARTYRDOM torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering …c1386
– MARTYRE torment, torture; extreme pain or suffering …c1330 obs.
– PAINS judicial torture …1533 obs. rare
– QUALE-HOUSE a house of torture …c1205 obs.
– SCAVENGER’S DAUGHTER an instrument of torture, consisting of a broad iron hoop, which was locked around the prisoner’s body, compressing it unnaturally to such an extent that the victim was effectively squeezed to death …M16
– SCOLD’S BRIDLE an instrument of punishment used for scolding women; it was used as a form of torture and public humiliation; it was an iron muzzle in an iron framework that enclosed the head; a bridle-bit (or curb-plate), about 2 inches long and 1 inch broad, projected into the mouth and pressed down on top of the tongue; it was first recorded in 1567; sometimes called a witch’s bridle, a brank’s bridle, or branks …1899 Sc.
– SKEFFINGTON’S DAUGHTER an instrument of torture, consisting of a broad iron hoop, which was locked around the prisoner’s body, compressing it unnaturally to such an extent that the victim was effectively squeezed to death …M16
– SKINNERS mental torture …L19 sl.
– STRAPPADO a form of torture: the culprit, his legs tied, was hoisted by a rope fastened to his arms behind his back, and was given a rapid descent stopped so suddenly that the jerk often dislocated the joints of arms and shoulders; this was repeated once or twice …1587 sl.
– TANACLES instruments of torture, like pincers …1598 obs. rare
– TINTREGH torment, torture …c893 obs.
 
TORTURE etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– RACKER one who operates the ‘rack’ – a torturer …1820
 
TORTURE etc. – VERBS
– BETHROW to twist about, to torture …1393 obs. rare
– MARTYR to inflict grievous suffering or pain upon; to torment, to torture …c1240
– PAIN to inflict a penalty or punishment upon; to punish; to torture by way of punishment; to fine …c1350 obs.
– RACK to inflict mental pain or torture on a person; to torture, to distract the mind, soul, etc. …1601
– THROW to twist; to wreath, to wind; to wrench, to sprain; to wring the neck; to turn a key; to torture, esp. by twisting a cord round the head …1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TINTREGHE to torment, to torture …c1175 obs.

TOSS, TOSS AWAY, TOSSING – NOUNS
– CANT a blow or toss …1755 boxing usage
– CANVASS a shaking up; a tossing up and down …1611 obs.
– PECK a toss, a hard throw …1967 Amer. dial.
– WAP a shake, a flap; a sweeping or tossing movement …a1663 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

TOSS etc. – VERBS
– BALLOT to toss about like a ball, to drive hither and thither …1680 obs. rare
– BANDY to toss, drive, or throw aside or away …1591 obs.
– BEFROUNCE to toss about; to tousle …1581 obs.
– BUTT-CAN to toss away or aside …a1986 US military sl.
– CAIR to toss backwards and forwards; to mix up; to handle overmuch, to stir about …Bk1898 Sc.
– CANVAS(S) to toss in a canvas sheet, etc., as a sport or punishment …1508 obs.
– DANCE to toss …1846 Eng. dial.
– FLAP to toss, fling, slam, etc., abruptly or noisily
– FLINK to fling, to toss, to jerk, to throw with a jerk; to sprinkle, shake …1867 Eng. dial.
​- HUSTLE to shake to and fro, to toss …1684 obs.
– KATE MOSS to toss, to throw …1990s rhyming sl.
– KEDGE to toss about; to move a thing quickly from one place to another …Bk1901 Sc.
– LAB to pitch, to toss …Bk1902 Sc.
– RACKET to strike with, or as with, a racket; to toss or bandy about …1603 obs.
– SCRAWL to scrape up; to gather together; to toss about in a confused, disorderly manner …1866 Eng. dial.
– SHAG to toss about …c1380 obs. rare
– TAISLE to toss, to throw or buffet about; to stir up, to turn over hay …1825 Sc.
– TAIT to shake about; to stir, to toss about …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAVE to toss; to throw oneself about, esp. to throw the hands about wildly as a person in fever does …1691 Eng. dial.
– TEAP to tip, to tilt; to toss, to overturn …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TEASE to handle roughly; to tear; to toss about …1892 Sc.
– TEW to shake, to toss; to keep in motion; to rumple, to disarrange; to tumble; to pull about …1870 Eng. dial.
– TIPE to toss with the hand; to throw …1781 Eng. dial.
– TIZZLE to toss, to throw or buffet about; to stir up, to turn over hay …1825 Sc.
– TOLTER to move unsteadily; to flounder; to turn or toss about; to hobble; to walk unevenly …1529 Eng. dial.
– WAIVE to move to and fro in the wind; to be tossed about; to totter …a1300 obs.
– WALLER to toss or thrash about like a fish on dry land …1825 Sc.
– WALTER to roll about; to toss to and fro …c1375 obs.
– YARK;  YERK to throw with a jerk; to cast violently; to toss …1823 Sc. & Eng. dial.

TOTAL, TOTALITY, TOTALLY – ADVERBS
– ALL OVER in every respect, fully, totally …c1225
– ASSHOLE TO APPETITE from end to end, thoroughly, totally …1967 Amer. sl.
– BIG TIME totally, very …20C teen & high school sl.
– DEADASS completely; totally …1971 Amer. sl.
– DEAD-BANG completely, utterly, totally, absolutely … 1919 Amer. police usage
– FAIR DINKUM totally; properly; well and truly …1918 Aust. sl.
– FLAT-ASS absolutely; totally …Bk2006 US sl.
– FLAT OUT completely; totally …Bk2006 US sl.
– FROM ASSHOLE TO APPETITE from end to end; thoroughly, totally …1899 Amer. sl.
– FROM BACKBONE TO BREAKFAST TIME THROUGH AND THROUGH thoroughly, totally …1907 US sl.
– FULL SESH totally; completely …Bk1990 Amer. sl.
– HAIR AND HIDE every part, entirely, wholly, totally …c1450 obs.
– SOMETHING AWFUL to an extreme or striking extent or degree; very much, thoroughly, totally …1885
– WICKED very; extremely, really, totally …1960 Amer. dial.

TOTAL etc. – NOUNS
– BOX AND DICE the sum total, everything; the whole, complete turn-out …1889 Sc.
– HAIR AND HIDE the totality, the  entirety …1955 Amer. dial.
– HAIR, HIDE, AND ALL the totality, the entirety …1969 Amer. dial.
– HALE the whole, the whole amount or number; the sum total …1714 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– OMNITUDE the fact of being all; universality; the whole, the total sum …1839 rare
– QUOTIENT number, total …1659 obs. rare
– SUMMA a sum-total …1442 obs.
– WHOLE WARE, THE the whole number, quantity, or amount; the sum total…1563

TOTAL etc. – VERBS
– SUM-TOTALIZE to reckon or state the sum-total; to sum up …1840

TOTTER, TOTTERING, TOTTERY – ADJECTIVES
– COCKLETY rickety; tottering; unsteady; applied to what is likely to tumble or fall off …Bk1883 Eng. dial.
– DANDERY trembling, infirm, tottery …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAWTHERING shaky, tottering, trembling …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAWTHERY shaky, tottering, trembling …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DICKY of things, conditions, etc.: uncertain, doubtful, critical, hazardous; rickety, shaky, tottering …1851
– DODDLY nervous, shaky, unsteady; tottering, old, and not very well …1953 Amer. dial.
– HEIVY-KEIVY tottering …B1900 Eng. dial.
– LABEFACT shaken, tottering …1874 rare
– PADDLY tottering, uncertain in gait …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUEEDLING tottering …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– ROCKY unsteady, tottering, shaky …M18
– SHACKLEY;  SHACKLY ramshackle, rickety, run-down, tottering …1843 Amer. dial.
– SUCCIDUOUS ready to fall; tottering …1656 obs. rare
– TICKLE insecure, unstable, tottering, easily upset; ready to fall …1515 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TITTERING tottering, swaying. moving unsteadily …1661
– TITUBANT staggering, tottering, reeling, stumbling, unsteady …1817
– TOLTER moving unsteadily; unsteady, unstable, tottering; insecure, precarious …1423 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– WAFFLIE tottery, staggering …1973 Sc.
– WALEY-GALEY unsteady, tottering …B1900 Eng. dial.
– WAMBLY shaky, tottering, unsteady …1857 Eng. dial.
– WANTY unsteady, tottering …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
TOTTER etc. – ADVERBS
– HYTER-SKYTER with weak, tottering steps …B1900 Sc.
– TITTER-TOTTER in a tottering manner; unsteadily …1725
– WABBLE with a weak tottering step, tremulously …1866 Sc.
 
TOTTER etc. – NOUNS
– HYTER-SKYTER the act of walking with very tottering steps …B1900 Sc.
– LABASCENCY tottering state or condition …a1657 obs. rare
– SALLY a run from side to side; a rush, a dash; a swaying, swinging motion; a tottering situation …1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TAPPILOORIE anything raised high on a slight or tottering foundation …Bk1905 Sc.
– TITTERING the act of tottering or swaying; unsteady movement …c1374
– WAMBLE a rolling or unsteady motion; a totter, a quivering or shaking, a wriggle, a tumble …1825 Sc. 
 
TOTTER etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– PANTALOON a term of contempt applied to an enfeebled, tottering old man; a dotard, an old fool …1596-1600 obs.
– PAUCHLE a feeble old person, a tottering old body …1824 Sc. 
– TITTER-TOTTER one who totters, reels, or staggers …a1700 obs.
 
TOTTER etc. – VERBS
– DACKER to stagger, to totter …1668 Eng. dial.
– DAWTHER to tremble, to shake; to move in an infirm, shaky manner, to totter …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DODDER to move unsteadily; to totter
– FRIBBLE to falter, to totter in walking …1709 obs.
– HYTER-SKYTER to walk with tottering steps …B1900 Sc.
– LABEFACTATE to cause to totter or fall …1657 obs. rare
– PAIDLE to walk, esp. to walk slowly or with short steps; to totter, to toddle; to wander about …1808 Sc.
– PAY-WAY to totter, to oscillate …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– QUEEDLE to oscillate, to shake; to totter; to get about with difficulty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– QUIDDLY to oscillate, to shake; to totter; to get about with difficulty …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– STOTAY to falter, totter, stumble, stagger; to come to a stand …a1400 obs.
– TANTLE to walk slowly and feebly; to totter, as a young child; to dawdle, to loiter, to waste time; trifle, to potter about …1889 Eng. dial.
– TITTER to move unsteadily, as if about to fall; to totter, to reel; to sway to and fro …c1374 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TITUBATE to stagger, to stumble, to trip, to reel, to totter; to rock, roll …1575 rare
– TODDER to walk unsteadily, to totter …1871
– TOTTLE to totter, to rock; to cause to totter …c1820 Eng. dial.
– WABBLE to wobble; to walk unsteadily, to stagger, to totter, to rock on one’s feet, to waffle …1786 Sc.
– WAFFLE to stagger, to totter, to move uncertainly …1973 Sc.
– WAG to totter, to stagger; to be in danger of falling …c1340 obs.
– WAGGER to stagger, to totter …1382 obs.
– WAIVE to move to and fro in the wind; to be tossed about; to totter …a1300 obs.
– WALT to totter, to be on the point of falling; to topple, to roll or tumble over …1923 Sc. 
– WALTER to move or go unsteadily; to totter, to stumble; also, to go with a rolling gait; to waddle …1399 obs.
– WAMBLE of things: to totter, to waver; to move unsteadily, to stagger, to reel …1589 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

TOUCH, TOUCHABLE, TOUCHED, TOUCHING – ADJECTIVES
– PALPABLE that can be touched, felt, or handled; apprehensible by the sense of touch; tangible, sensible …c1384
– PALPATORY touching, feeling with the hand …1876 rare
– PALPED felt; apprehended by the touch …1609 obs.
– TACTABLE capable of being touched …1611 obs.
– TACTIC belonging to touch …1625 rare
– TACTILE perceptible to the touch …1615
– TACTIVE characterized by touching …1634 obs. rare
– TACTUAL pert. to touch; due to touch …1642
– TANGENT pert. to touch …1802
– TANGENT touching, contiguous …1846
– TANGIBLE capable of being touched; affecting the sense of touch; touchable …1589
– TENDER pathetic, touching …1901 Sc.

TOUCH etc. – NOUNS
– DAP a touch, a tap; a slight blow or knock …1867 Eng. dial.
– PALMATION the of touching or feeling with the palm of the hand …1688 obs.
– TACT the sense of touch; touch …1651
– TACT the act of touching or handling; a touch …1801 obs. rare
– TACTATION the act of touching …1688 obs. rare
– TACTION the act of touching; contact …1623
– TACTURE touch, contact …1597 obs.
– TACTURIENCY the desire of touching …1652 nonce word obs.
– TAKING touching, touch …1340 obs. rare
– TANGENCE the quality or condition of touching, touch; point of contact …1840 rare
– TEEPLE a slight touch or stroke …B1900 Sc.
– TICK a light but distinct touch; a light quick stroke; a pat, a tap … c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TIG a touch; usually a light but significant touch, a tap or pat …1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– TIPPLER a light stroke; an accidental touch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.

TOUCH etc. – VERBS
– BERINE to touch; to fall upon, to fall …a1300 obs. rare
– FEEL OF to touch, to handle …1817 Amer. dial.
– NAM to touch, to lay hands on …1825 Sc.
– PALP to touch, to feel; to handle gently, to pat …1534 rare
– PALPABRIZE to feel, to touch, to handle …1593 obs.
– PRINKLE to touch; to cause to tingle …1868 Sc.
– RAISE to graze, to touch …1591 obs.
– SCAMP to graze, to strike slightly, to touch lightly in passing, to deliver a glancing blow to …1911 Amer. dial.
– SKIFF to touch lightly in passing over; to skim …1807-10 Sc.
– TAINT to touch, to strike, to hit …1525 obs.
– TAKE to touch …a1150 obs.
– TAN to touch; to fondle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAT to touch gently …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TEEPLE to touch or strike lightly …B1900 Sc.
– TICK to touch or tap a thing or person lightly; to bestow light touches or pats by way of caressing …1546
– TIP to tap; to strike smartly or lightly; to touch lightly …1850 Sc.
– TIPPLE to touch lightly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TITILLATE to touch lightly; to irritate slightly …1837

TOUCHY – ADJECTIVES
– ALL HAIR BY THE NOSE;  ALL HAIR IN THE NOSE angry, quarrelsome, touchy …1924 Amer. dial.
– DICEY touchy; chancy; touch and go …Bk2006 US sl.
– FEISTY irascible, argumentative, touchy, angry, low, mean, cross; pert, impertinent, impudent, self-important; frisky, mettlesome …1890 Amer. dial.
– FRATCH quarrelsome, easily offended, touchy …1882 Eng. dial.
– FUFFY short-tempered, touchy, huffy …1858 Sc.
– GOOSEY;  GOOSY nervous, jumpy, touchy, ticklish …1906 Amer. dial.
– HAIR-SORE touchy, ready to take offense …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– HATTLE-TEMPERED quick-tempered, touchy …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HECKLE-TEMPERED short-tempered, hasty, touchy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– KITTLE difficult to deal with, esp. because touchy, obstinate, or intractable; fickle, capricious …Sc.
– MIFFY apt to take offense, touchy, capricious …1750 Eng. dial.
– NAGGIE cross-tempered, touchy, ill-natured …1838 Sc.
– NAGGLY touchy, fretful, sarcastic, quarrelsome; ill-natured …1887 Sc.
– NATTLE quick to take offense; touchy; irritable; cross …1868 Eng. dial.
– ON OFFSIDES of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended …1969 Amer. dial.
– ON THE OFFSIDE of a person: odd, peculiar; irritable, touchy, easily offended …1969 Amer. dial.
– OUCHY irritable, short-tempered, touchy, easily offended, sensitive, intolerant …1966 Amer. dial.
– PRICKLY of a person: touchy …1894 sl.
– SAFT-SKINNED easily offended, touchy, thin-skinned …1882 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SHORT-LIMBERED touchy …L19
– SHORT-MINDED quick-tempered, touchy …1986 Amer. dial.
– SHORT-PATIENCED quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient …1922 Amer. dial.
– SHORT-PATIENT quick-tempered; excitable; touchy; irritable; easily offended; impatient …1922 Amer. dial.
– SNARKY irritable; touchy; sarcastic, snide …1906 Amer. sl.
– SNUFFY annoyed, displeased, ready to take offense, touchy; sulky, angry, vexed, fault-finding; unpleasant, disagreeable …1678
– TATCHY touchy, irritable, peevish, fretful, cross …1746 Eng. dial.
– TECHEOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1842 Amer. dial.
– TECHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1903 Amer. dial.
– TECHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended, sensitive …1815 Amer. dial.
– TETCHEROUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1976 Amer. dial.
– TETCHIFIED touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1944 Amer. dial.
– TETCHIOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1913 Amer. dial.
– TETCHOUS touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1842 Amer. dial.
– TETCHOUS AS A SKINNED EEL touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1842 Amer. dial.
– TETCHSOME touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered …1966 Amer. dial.
– TETCHY touchy, irritable, fretful, short-tempered, peevish, easily offended …1592
– THIN-SKINNED sensitive to criticism, reproach, or rebuff; easily offended; touchy 
– TICKLE uncertain in temper; touchy, easily offended …1874 Eng. dial.
– TICKLISH easily upset in temper; apt to be offended, sensitive, touchy …1581
– TICKY finicky, fussy, too particular; touchy, easily offended …1894 Amer. dial.
– TOUCHOUS tetchy, touchy, apt to take offense; irritable, irascible, peevish; testy, easily angered, ill-tempered …1880 Amer. dial.

TOUCHY – NOUNS, PERSON
– FEIST;  FICE;  FISTE;  FYST a person or animal that is irascible, touchy, or bad-tempered …1915 Amer. dial., derogatory
– FEISTY BRITCHES;  FICETY BREECHES a touchy or quarrelsome person …1906 Amer. dial.

TOUCHY – VERBS
– HAVE A BUG UP ONE’S ASS to be irascible and touchy …1954 Amer. dial.
– HAVE A HAIR CROSSED to be touchy, sensitive, or defensive …1968 Amer. dial.
– RUN FOR THE HOSES to talk your way out of a touchy situation …1960s Amer. sl.

TOUGH, TOUGHNESS – ADJECTIVES
– BAD of persons: very tough; pugnacious; formidable; hence, formidably skilled …1855 Amer. sl., esp. Black usage
– BADASS belligerent or intimidating; tough; bad; nasty …M20 sl., orig. & chiefly US
– CASE-HARDENED made callous or tough by experience …1769
– DUSTY tough, dangerous …M19 US sl.
– GALLOWS attractive, wonderful; self-confident, quick-witted, brave, tough, bold, daring, ostentatious, nonchalant …1789 UK
– GUTSY tough, spirited, courageous …1893
– GUTTY tough, spirited, courageous …1953
– HALF-ALLIGATOR aggressive, tough, rambunctious …M19 sl.
– HARD-BITTEN tough in fight …1784
– HARD DOWN tough, adamant …1851 Amer. dial.
– HARDROCK(S) physically tough …1910s US sl.
– HUSKY tough and strong; big, strong, and vigorous …1894
– LEATHER-ASSED tough, stubborn, aggressive …1977 Amer. sl.
– LEATHERLY leather-like, tough …1573 obs.
– NUGGETY short, thickset, tough …1856 Aust. & NZ sl.
– OILY mean-tempered; tough, mean, unpleasant, troublesome, unruly, obstinate …1936 Amer. dial.
– RAWHIDE of a person: tough, experienced …1883 Amer. dial.
– ROUGHNECK tough, rowdy …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– SALTY tough, aggressive; used of a veteran of a particular environment, as of a prison …1920s US sl.
– TIGHT of a person: tough and unyielding …1928 US sl.
– TOUGH AS A BILED OWL having a tough, strong constitution …1909 Amer. dial.
– TOUGH AS A BOILED OWL having a tough, strong constitution …1843 Amer. dial.
– TOUGH AS FENCING WIRE very tough …Bk1999 Aust. sl.
– TOUGH AS OLD BOOTS very tough …1870
– TOUGH AS WHANG very tough …1956 Amer. dial.
– TOUGH AS WHANG LEATHER adj. very tough …1937 Amer. dial.
– TOUGH AS WHITLEATHER very tough …1786 Amer. dial.
– TOUGHER THAN A BILED OWL very tough indeed …1863 Amer. sl.
– TOUGHER THAN A BOILED OWL thoroughly tough and of strong constitution …1892 Amer. dial.
– TOUGHER THAN WHALE BONE very tough …1938 Amer. dial.
– TOUGHER THAN WHANG very tough …1938 Amer. dial.
– TOUGHER THAN WHITLEATHER tougher than rawhide, very tough …1923 Amer. dial.
– WITHY like a withe; tough and flexible, leathery …1822 Amer. dial.
– WITHY of a person: strong and supple; wiry, tough …1849 Amer. dial.
 
TOUGH etc. – NOUNS
– BARB WIRE DEAL a tough situation to handle …1958 Amer. dial.
– GUTS stamina, toughness of character, tenacity, staying power, endurance …colloq.
 
TOUGH etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– BABY a mean or intimidating man; a tough guy …1939 Amer. sl. 
– BADASS a tough guy; a cocky, troublesome person …1956 US sl. 
– BAD DAD a person whose opinion of his own toughness exceeds the rest of the world’s estimation …1973 US sl.
– BADDIE an unpleasant person, spec. a criminal, a hoodlum, a tough guy; a mischievous person …1939 sl.
– BAD EGG a tough man …1928 sl., orig. US
– BAMBINO a man, esp. a strong or tough man; a fellow, a guy …c1920 Amer. sl.
– BATTLE-CRUISER a tough, aggressive, formidable older woman …1957 sl.
– BATTLESHIP a tough, physically large and aggressive (older) woman …1865 US sl.
– BIFF-GUY a thug, a hoodlum, or tough …Bk1992 criminals’ sl.
– BIG DOG a thug; a bouncer, a large, tough man employed to keep order in premises …1884 US sl.
– BILLY BAD-ASS someone who sets themselves up as tough, aggressive; usually in ironic use …1970 sl., orig. US
– BILLY JOE BAD-ASS someone who sets themselves up as tough, aggressive; usually in ironic use …1987 sl., orig. US
– BIMBO a thug; a tough guy; a stupid, inconsequential or contemptible fellow …1918 US sl.
– BIT OF STUFF a tough, aggressive young man …1900 Aust. & Irish sl.
– BRUISER a strong, tough person …1580 colloq.
– BUTCH a nickname for a tough young man …1942 US sl.
– DUKE a regular fellow; a tough guy …1989 US sl.
– GEMMIE a tough, ruthless young man …1973 Sc. sl.
– HARD-ARSE;  HARD-ASS a tough, unyielding, severe person; a severe and often pugnacious person …1940s US sl.
– HARD-CASE a hardened, tough person …1836 US sl.
– HARDFIST a violence-prone, tough person …1955 Can. sl.
– HARD JOHN a tough, uncompromising person …1961 US sl.
– HARD KNOT a person no to be trifled with; a tough character …1981 Amer. dial.
– HARD NUT a dangerous foe; a tough individual; a difficult challenge …1884 US sl.
– HARD ROCK a physically and mentally strong, tough person …1988 African-American sl.
– HARDROCKER a thug; a tough person …1970s US sl.
– HARD ROOT a tough, devil-may-care person …1920s Irish sl.
– JABRONEY;  JABRONI a low-level gangster; a tough …1921 US sl.
– LEATHER-ASS a tough, stubborn or aggressive person …1970 Amer. sl.
– MACCA-MAN a tough, strong, efficient man …1970s W. Indies sl.
– MAN-EATER an exceptionally strong, tough fellow; esp. a pugilist …20C Brit. sl.
– MOLL orig., a girl or woman; one’s wife or sweetheart ; a tough or rowdy young woman …1753
– MUSSIE a tough woman …1953 Brit. sl.
– NAIL a tough or dangerous fellow …1812 Amer. sl.
– NAILS an aggressive person  a ‘hard’ man …1989 UK juvenile sl. 
– PUG any young tough or mean man …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– ROD a manager or leader, usually a tough person or harsh disciplinarian …L19 sl.
– SCRUFF-HOUND a rough, tough person …1940s sl.
– TUSH HOG a tough, aggressive person, a bully, a rowdy …1919 Amer. dial.
– WAR HORSE an old person still active or enthusiastic; a tough old person …Bk1980 Amer. sl.
– ZAMIETESS a tough, brawling, noisy woman …1996 W. Indies sl.
 
TOUGH etc. – VERBS
– HAVE A PAPER ASSHOLE to lack toughness …1945 Amer. sl.

TOUPEE – see WIG

TOUR – NOUNS
– a quick tour on foot; a short flight in an aircraft FLIP 1914 colloq.

TOUR – VERBS
– to make an informal tour on foot; said of an important person GO WALKABOUT 1984 UK sl.

TOURIST – ADJECTIVES
– TOURISTY full of tourists; designed or developed to appeal to tourists; characteristic of tourists; often used with derogatory connotations …1906 UK sl.

TOURIST – NOUNS
– TOURIST TRAP a place that attracts and makes unreasonable profits from tourists …1939 UK sl.
– YAP WAGON a vehicle taking tourists on sightseeing tours …1920s US sl.

TOURIST – NOUNS, PERSON
– BIG DICK FROM BOSTON one who is puritanical at home but everything goes outside or away from it; a loudmouth tourist …Bk1972 homosexual sl.
– EIGHT-MILER a careless tourist or trucker who runs down the road with a signal light on for several miles …1971 US trucking sl.
– GIDDY a tourist, esp. on a package holiday …1997 UK sl.
– LAKER a holiday tourist …1825 Eng. dial.
– LONGTAIL a single female tourist …1985 Bermuda sl.
– MALIHINI a stranger, a newcomer; a visitor, a tourist …1914 Hawaii
– PILGRIM an emigrant, a migrant, a visitor, a tourist; a newcomer, a greenhorn, a tenderfoot …1867 Amer. dial.
– PUKER a tourist …1997 US sl.
– SAGEBRUSHER a tourist into the west; a camper …1908 Amer. dial.
– SAVAGE a cowboy’s name for a hitchhiking tourist …Bk1945 US Western sl. 
– SHUNPIKER one who drives free roads; a tourist who drives back roads …1951 Amer. dial.
– SNOWBIRD a winter tourist who travels south to avoid the chilly weather …1920s Florida and other southern states
– TOURIST ANNIE the stereotypical female tourist in Port of Spain, dressed in what she perceives as traditional island clothing …1971 Trinidad and Tobago
– TOURISTER a tourist …1923 Amer. dial.
– VACATIONER a holiday-maker, a tourist; a person at leisure …1890 US
– VACATIONIST a holiday-maker, a tourist; a person at leisure …1885
– WINDSHIELD TOURIST a touring motorist who rarely leaves the car to enjoy the sights …Bk1993 
– YA-YAS German tourists …Bk1998 NZ sl. 

TOUSLE, TOUSLED – ADJECTIVES
– tousled, tangled SNAGGLY Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– tousled, tangled TOUSLEDY Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– tousled, tangled TOUSY Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– tousled, tangled, entangled TANGLY 19C Eng. dial.

TOUSLE etc. – VERBS
– to tousle, to rumple; to play roughly with WOOL 1864 Amer. sl.
– to tousle, to shake; to tumble about JERRYCUMMUMBLE 1785 sl.
– to tousle, to toss about BEFROUNCE 1581 obs.

TOUT – NOUNS
– SCALPING working as a ticket tout …L19 sl., orig. US

TOUT – NOUNS, PERSON
– BARKER one who ‘barks’ at a cheap shop or show to entice people inside; an auction-room or shop tout …1699
– BIRD DOG one who lures victims into positions of vulnerability; a tout who furnishes prospects and talks up the securities among his acquaintances …1935 US sl.
– GENTLEMAN OF OBSERVATION a (spying) tout …19C turf sl.
– IN-AND-OUT a tout, a ticket tout …1998 UK rhyming sl. 
– JACKAL a moneylender’s tout …19C sl.
– SALMON (AND TROUT) a ticket tout …1932 UK rhyming sl.
– SALMON TROUT a bookmaker’s tout …1930s rhyming sl.
– SCALPER someone who sells tickets, etc., esp. below the official rates; a spectator who touts tickets for a show, lottery, etc. at inflated prices …1869 sl., orig. US
– SCHLAPPER;  SCHLEPPER;  SHLEPPER a tout; a person who solicits custom or business …1940s sl.
– SPRUIKER a person who shouts to attract customers; one who tries to persuade people to buy something, use a service, etc., often in a dishonest or exaggerated way; a tout …1893  Aust. & NZ sl.

TOUT – VERBS
– CADGE to tout for custom …Bk1898 Eng. dial.

TOWARDS – ADJECTIVES
– ADMOTIVE characterized by motion towards …1879
– ADMOVENT moving to …1731 obs.

TOWARDS – ADVERBS
– ATO of motion: to, towards …Bk1898 Sc.
– ATOO of motion: to, towards …Bk1898 Sc.
– ATTO of motion: to, towards …Bk1898 Sc.

TOWARDS – PREPOSITIONS
– ATORT towards, in the direction of …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– ATOWARDS towards, in the direction of …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– FAST AND SNELL near, towards, in a straight line …1895 Sc.
– GAIN towards, to meet with …a1300 obs.
– GAINWARD towards, facing, over against …a1541 obs. rare
– TILWARD in the direction of, toward …a1300 obs. rare
– TO-GAINS towards, forward to, so as to meet …c950 obs.
– TO-GAINST towards, forward to, so as to meet …c950 obs.

TOWARDS – VERBS
– ADMOVE to move to or towards …c1420 obs.
– EASE OVER to move towards …1930s sl., orig. US
– OPPOSE to look towards, to face, to front …1608 rare

TOWEL – NOUNS
– a towel RAG 1900s sl.
– a towel SANDY POWELL 1940s rhyming sl.
– a towel, a napkin; a duster HANDCLOTH c1000 obs.
– a towel, a napkin; a duster HANDCLOUT 1788 Eng. dial.

TOWER – NOUNS
– a tower CASTLE 1642

TOWN, TOWNSHIP – ADJECTIVES (also see NEIGHBOURHOOD)
– OFF THE STONES off the city pavement, out of the town …a1845 obs.
– OPPIDAN belonging to a town or to the town, as opposed to the country; civic; urban …1643
– OPPIDAN pert. to a university town, as opposed to the university itself …1655 obs.
– TOWNIFIED having the style or manners of a town, citified …1966 Amer. dial.

TOWN etc. – NOUNS
– ARMPIT a highly undesirable town or place …1968 US sl.
– ARSEHOLE the least appetizing, poorest, most run-down and potentially dangerous area of a city, town, or place …1930s sl., orig. US
– BACKSIDE a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– BACKSIDES the parts of a town off the main street …1823 Sc.
– BANDYWALLOP an imaginary town, far from civilization …Aust. colloq.
– BEAN TOWN a part of town where poor people or foreigners live …1967 Amer. dial.
– BEDBUG ALLEY a squalid and run-down building or area of a town; a part of a town where the poorer people live …1968 Amer. dial.
– BEDBUG ROW a squalid and run-down building or area of a town; a part of a town where the poorer people live …1968 Amer. dial.
– BERG a town, village, hamlet …1843 Amer. dial.
– BIG APPLE any big city or town …1944 US sl.
– BIG SMOKE aboriginal name for a town …1848 Aust.
– BILLY-GOAT ALLEY the run-down or poor section of a town; a slummy place …1969 Amer. dial.
– BILLY-GOAT HILL the run-down or poor section of a town; a slummy place …1935 Amer. dial.
– BORROW a burgh or town …Bk1911 Sc.
– BUNKUM TOWN the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1966 Amer. dial.
– BURG a town, village, hamlet …1843 Amer. dial.
– BURGH a town, village, hamlet …1843 Amer. dial.
– BUZZARD’S ROW the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1965 Amer. dial.
– BY a place of habitation; a village or town …c950 obs.
– CABBAGE TOWN the poor area of a town …20C US sl.
– CHECKERBOARD a town, neighbourhood, public gathering place, factory, etc., which contains both Black and White elements …20C Amer. sl.
– CHITLIN SWITCH any small, rural southern town …1926 African-American sl.
– CODFISH FLATS the poor area of town …1960s US sl.
– CROSSROADS a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– DEVIL’S HALF ACRE a part of town notorious for lawless behaviour …1959 Amer. dial.
– DINGE ALLEY the Black district of a town …20C US sl., derogatory
– DOCTORS’ ROW the part of a town where the well-off people live …1968 Amer. dial.
– DULLSVILLE an imaginary town that is extremely dull or boring; hence, a condition or environment of extreme dullness …1960 sl., orig. US
– EAST JESUS a remote or small town or place …1961 US sl.
– EAST JESUS, KANSAS an out-of-the-way place, a small town …1950s sl.
– FALLING-OFF PLACE a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FILLING STATION a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– FRESHWATER TOWN a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GABBY ROW the area of town where the poor live …20C US sl.
– GOAT HILL the part of a town where the well-off people live …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOD-FORSAKEN PLACE a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– GOOF OFF to waste time; to play aimlessly when there is work to be done …M20 US colloq.
– GOOSE FLAT a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE GREEN a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE HILL a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE HOLLER;  GOOSE HOLLOW a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSE NIBBLE a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSETOWN a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOOSEVILLE a nickname for a town or a section of a town, often a poor one …1965 Amer. dial.
– GREASE SPOT IN THE ROAD a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HACKLEBARNEY a non-existent town you try to get to that is forever just around the next curve or just over the next hill, a town you believe in but never get to …1950
mer. sl.
– HAVEN-TOWN a town having a haven or harbour; a seaport town …c1400 obs.
– HIDE-AWAY a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– HIGHLANDS the prosperous parts of a town, where the wealthy elite live …20C US sl.
– HOB’S KNOB the smart, rich area of a town …20C US sl.
– HONKY-TONK a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ICE-CREAM LAND the part of a town where the well-off people live …1986 Amer. dial.
– ICE-CREAM SECTION the part of a town where the well-off people live …1967 Amer. dial.
– JERKWATER a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JERKWATER TOWN a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– JUMPING-OFF PLACE a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– KERRYPATCH in the US: the part of a town where the poor Irish lived …1965 Amer. dial.
– LIAR’S BENCH the wooden seat on the front porch of the town’s general store, post office, etc. …1975 Amer. dial.
– LICKSKILLET the part of a town where the poorer people, foreign groups, etc. live …1965 Amer. dial.
– LOG TOWN a small or unimportant town …1950 Amer. dial.
– MECHANICS’ ALLEY a poor or run-down part of a town or city …1968 Amer. dial.
– MECHANICS’ AVENUE a poor or run-down part of a town or city …1968 Amer. dial.
– MECHANIC STREET a poor or run-down part of a town or city …1968 Amer. dial.
– METROPOLE a chief town or city; a metropolis …a1300 obs.
– MILL TOWN the poor area of a town or city …1960s US sl.
– MILL VILLAGE the poor area of a town or city …1960s US sl.
– MUD HOLE a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– MUD-HOLE TOWN a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– NAKED CITY the poor area of a town …1960s US sl.
– NATION the native population of a town or city …1523 obs.
– NEEDMORE a section of town, esp. a poor or disadvantaged one …1966 Amer. dial.
– NEIGHBORHOOD a town …1939 Amer. dial.
– NOB END the part of town where the money lives …1964 Brit. sl.
– NOPLACEVILLE a dull or boring place or town; a small town; a jerkwater town …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– ONE-HORSE TOWN a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– ONE-LUNG TOWN a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– PANE a side of a quadrangle, cloister, court, or town …a1300 obs.
– PIG ALLEY the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1967 Amer. dial.
– PUMKIN; PUMPKIN; PUNKIN a small town or rural community; a rustic place; a town in the sticks …Bk1974 Amer. carnival, circus, & theatre use
– RAG TOWN a town built in prosperous times, bound to fall into poverty with the end of prosperous times …1954 US sl.
– SCRABBLE TOWN the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1968 Amer. dial.
– SCRATCH-ANKLE a part of a town inhabited by poor Whites …1965 Amer. dial.
– SCUFFLETOWN a nickname for a poor or disreputable town or district …1941 Amer. dial.
– SIDE an area of a town or city …1970s sl.
– SKID ROW a part of a town frequented by vagrants, alcoholics, etc. …1931 sl., chiefly Amer.
– SKUNK ROAD a name for the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1965 Amer. dial.
– STOP a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STOP IN THE ROAD a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STOP-OFF a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– STOPPING-OFF PLACE a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TANK a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TANK STATION a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– TANK TOWN 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.
– TIN-CAN ALLEY a poor or shabby street or section of town …1898 Amer. dial.
– UP-AND-DOWN a town …1930s rhyming sl.
– VILE;  VILLE;  VOIL;  VYLE a town or village …L17 sl
– WHISTLE STOP a small town …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– WIDE HOLE IN THE ROAD a very small town …1965 Amer. dial.
– WIDE PATH IN THE ROAD a very small town …1965 Amer. dial.
– WIDE PLACE IN THE ROAD a very small town …1879 Amer. dial.
– WIDE SPACE IN THE ROAD a very small town …1965 Amer. dial.
– WIDE SPOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD a very small town …1950 Amer. dial.
– WIDE SPOT IN THE ROAD a very small town …1909 Amer. dial.

TOWN etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
– B’HOY a town rowdy …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– CADCATCHER a term of contempt for a townsman
– GEORDIE a townsman, esp. a working-man …L19 Durham University usage
– MAIN STREETER a provincial, small-town person …1920s sl.
– OPPIDAN an inhabitant of a town, a townsman …c1540
– SAGES OF THE TOWN the elders or wise persons of the town …Bk1877 Eng. dial. obs.
– TAILOR a townsman, especially one not used to horses …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TOWNIE a townsperson, contrasted with a visiting student or summer visitor …1852 US sl.
– TOWN-MOUSE a dweller in a town, especially one who is unfamiliar with country life …1857

TOWN etc. – VERBS
– RAMBLE THE BOUNDARIES to go round the boundaries of a township …1865 Eng. dial.

TOWN CRIER – NOUNS
– LANTERN AND CANDLE-LIGHT the old cry of the London bellman at night …1600 obs.

TOWN CRIER – NOUNS, PERSON
– BEADLE the crier or usher of a law-court; a town-crier …c1400 obs.
– BELL a bellman; a town-crier with a bell …1905 Sc. obs.
– BELLMAN a man employed to go round the streets of a town and make public announcements, to which he attracts attention by ringing a bell; a town-crier; formerly, a bellman announced deaths, and called on the faithful to pray for the souls of the departed; a bellman also acted as night-watchman, and called the hours …1391
– BELLOWER he who bellows; the town crier …a1624
– BELL-WOMAN a former fishing-town crier; going from house to house, she opened the door, rung her bell in the entrance, and then made her announcement …Bk1873 Eng. dial.
– LANTERN AND CANDLE MAN a bellman …1592 obs.
– YELP a town crier …1728 sl. obs.
– YELPER a town-crier …1725 sl. 

TOWN HALL – NOUNS
– a town hall TOWN HOUSE 1530
– a town hall or guildhall TOLBOOTH 1440 chiefly Sc.

TOY – NOUNS
– BABBY-LAKIN a child’s toy; hence, a trifling thing; a triviality …1891 Eng. dial.
– BAIRN’S-LAKINS children’s playthings, toys …1891 Eng. dial.
– BAUBLE a child’s plaything or toy …c1460 obs.
– BEAUBELET a small toy, trinket, plaything …c1205 obs. rare
– BONNY DIE a trinket, a toy …Bk1911 Sc.
– DALL a child’s toy; a pretty, silly woman …1818 Sc.
– DALLY a child’s toy; a pretty, silly woman …1822 Sc.
– DIE a toy, a plaything, a geegaw …1816 Sc.
– FRIGGLE-FRAGGLES toys, trifles, gewgaws; useless, vain ornaments of dress …19C Sc.
– GAMBOL a toy, a plaything …1581 obs.
– GAUD;  GAWD a plaything, a toy; also, something gaudy; a showy ornament, a piece of finery; a gewgaw …c1430 
– GAUDY a bright-coloured ornament; a toy, a bauble, a gewgaw …1555 obs.
– GEARS toys …a1400-50 obs.
– GINGAMBOBS toys, baubles …1690 sl. obs.
– HAPPY a toy or plaything …1924 Amer. dial.
– JAPE a trifle, a toy, a trinket, a plaything …1436 obs.
– LAALY a toy …1892 Sc.
– LAIRKIN a plaything, a toy …c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– LAKE a toy, a plaything …1887 Sc.
– LAKIN a plaything, a toy …c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– LAKING a toy, a plaything; a trifle …1790 Eng. dial.
– LAKING-KIST a box of toys …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LALIE a child’s toy …1898 Sc.
– LALL a child’s toy, a plaything …1838 Sc.
– LALLIE a child’s toy, a plaything …1838 Sc.
– LAULIE a child’s toy …1898 Sc.
– TIRLY-TOY a trifle, a toy …a1807 Sc.
– TRICKS small articles or personal belongings; toys, knickknacks, trifles …1869 Amer. dial.
– TRITTLE-TRATTLES trifles, gewgaws, knickknacks; children’s toys …1896 Sc. rare
– WALLIE;  WALLY;  WALY;  WAWLIE a toy, a gewgaw …1722 Sc.
– WALLY-DYE a toy, a knickknack, a trifle, a piece of ornamentation or finery …1802 Sc.
– WHIRLIMAGIG;  WHIRLIMAJIG;  WHIRLIMIJIG;  WHIRLIMYJIG a toy that spins round; a top or a pinwheel …1909 Amer. dial.

TOY, TOY WITH – VERBS
– DANDLE to trifle, to play or toy with …1569 obs.
– DAUNT to toy …a1529 obs. rare
– NANTLE to caress, to fondle; to nurse in a playful manner; to toy with anything …1874 Eng. dial.
– NIFF-NAFF to trifle; to toy; to take finicking trouble; to talk or act foolishly or aimlessly …1728 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– PADDLE to play or dabble idly or fondly with the fingers; to toy …1602
– TICK to fondle, to caress; to toy …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TODDLE to play or toy with …1500-20 obs. rare