That, pron. (euphemistic).—1. The penis: see Prick; 2. the female pudendum: see Monosyllable; and (3) the virginity. Fr. ça.
1898. Pink 'Un and Pelican, 227. 'Well, that's gone!' as the girl said to the soldier in the park, when she lost her certificate from the Billericay Sunday-School.
At that, phr. (American).—A pleonastic intensive.
1855. Blackwood's Mag., Sept. 'Notes on North-Western States.' 'Liquor up, gentlemen.' We bowed. 'Let me introduce you to some of the most highly esteemed of our citizens.' We bowed again. 'Now then, Mister,' turning to the man at the bar, 'drinks round, and cobblers at that.'
1859. Bartlett, Americanisms, s.v. At that. He's got a scolding wife, and an ugly one at that.
1888. Keighley Goodchild, 'The Old Felt Hat.' So we'll drain the flowing bowl, 'Twill not jeopardise the soul, For it's only tea, and weak at that.
Thatch, subs. (old).—Hair: spec.
(a) the hair of the head; and (2)
the pubic hair. Hence thatched
house under the hill = the
female pudendum. See Fleece
and Monosyllable. As verb =
to cover with (or wear) hair.
1609. Shakspeare, Timon, iv. 3. 144. Thatch your poor thin roofs With burdens of the dead.
1630. Drayton, Muse's Elysium, iv. Thro' the thick hair that thatch'd their browes Their eyes upon me stared.
1772. Stevens, Songs Comic and Satyrical. The Thatched House Under the Hill [Title].
Thatched-head, subs. phr. (old).—An
Irishman: in contempt.
[Nares: 'one wearing the hair
matted together, as the native
Irish in times past.']
1612. Beaumont and Fletcher, Coxcomb, ii. Ere ye go, sirrah Thatch'd-head, would'st not thou Be whipp'd, and think it justice.
Thatch-gallows, subs. phr.
(old).—A worthless fellow
(Grose).
Theg (or teaich) gen, subs. Phr.
(back slang).—Eight shillings;
theg (or teaitch) yanneps =
eightpence.
There, adv. (common).—Colloquial
for smart (q.v.): e.g., all
there = (1) alert, first-rate, up
to the mark, nothing wanting.
Also to get there = (1) to
achieve; and (2) to make one's
jack (q.v.): also to get there
with both feet.
1821. Egan, Life in London, ii. i. The slavey and her master—the surgeon and the resurrection-man—. . . they are all there.
1877. Five Years' Penal Servitude, iii. 220. He stayed . . . doing the grand and sucking the flats till the folks began to smoke him as not all there.
1880. Punch, 7 Aug., 59. All there! Clerk (who has called to see the gas-meter). 'Is yours a wet, or a dry meter, madam?' Young Wife (who does not like to show ignorance). 'Well, it is rather damp, I'm afraid!'
1883. Payn, Thicker than Water, xx. It was his excusable boast . . . that when anything was wanted he was all there.
1887. Francis, Saddle and Mocassin. He said as he'd been gambling, and was two hundred dollars ahead of the town. He got there with both feet at starting.
1888. New York Herald, 29 July. Although not a delegate he got there all the same.
1901. Free Lance, 27 Ap., 79. 1. She was all there, and when she found that robbery was meant she made a stout resistance.
Theta. To mark with theta,
verb. phr. (old).—To condemn to
death. [The first letter ('the unlucky
letter') of Gr. [Greek: thanatos] =
death.]
Thick, subs. (colloquial).—1.
Generic for obtuseness: e.g., as
subs. = stupid fellow; a block-
