1883. Greenwood, Tag, Rag, and Co. He took me into his confidence, with the professed object, as he himself declared, of proving to me 'what a thundering fool he had been.'
1888. Boldrewood, Squatter's Dream, iii. 24. If I had had my way, I'd have burned down the thundering old place long ago.
Thunder-mug, subs. phr. (old).—A chamber-pot; see It.
Thusness. Why this thusness? phr. (common).—A pleonastic 'Why'?
Thwack, subs. and verb. (B. E. and Grose).—'To Beat with a Stick or Cudgel' (B. E.); 'a great blow with a stick across the shoulders' (Grose); thick-thwack =blow after blow.
1574. Appius and Virginia [Dodsley, Old Plays (Hazlitt), iv. 123]. With thwick thwack, with thump thump.
d. 1618. Stanyhurst, Conceites [Arber], 138. With peale meale ramping, with thwick thwack sturdelye thundring.
Thwacker, subs. (colloquial).—Anything very much out of the common; thwacking=tremendous, great: see Whopper.
1620. Middleton, Chaste Maid, v. 3. Sec. Ser. A bonfire, sir? Sir Ol. A thwacking one, I charge you.
Tib, subs. (old).—1. A woman: generic (cf. Tom=man), a usage that long lingered (B. E. and Grose); hence (2) a term of endearment (Halliwell): also a calf; and (3) contemptuously, a wanton. Cf. Tib of the buttery=goose (sometimes= an endearment).
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneid [Arber], 102. A coy tyb . . . That the plat of Carthage from mee by coosinage hooked . . . Hath scorned my wedlock.
1598. Shakspeare, All's Well, ii. 2. 22. As fit as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's rush for Tom's forefinger. Ibid. (1609), Pericles, iv. 6. 176. Every coistrel That comes inquiring for his tib.
1652. Brome, Jovial Crew, ii. As Tom or Tib When they at bowsing ken do swill.
1677. Coles, Lat.-Eng. Dict. A tib, mulier sordida.
1693. Cambridge Dict., Tib. Tib, a poor sorry woman; mulier-cula impura.
4. (provincial).—The anus: see Bum.
5. (back slang).—A bit: hence TIB FO OCCABOT=a bit of tobacco.
To TIB OUT, verb. phr. (Charterhouse).—To go beyond bounds.
1854-5. Thackeray, Newcomes, xli. When I was a boy I used what they call to tib out, and run down to a public-house in Cistercian Lane, the Red Cow, sir.
TIB-OF-THE-BUTTERY (or TIB), subs. phr. (Old Cant).—A goose; cf. Tib (Harman, B. E. and Grose).
1622. Fletcher Beggars Bust, v. 1. Margery praters, Rogers, and Tibs o' th' Buttery.
1641. Brome,Jovial Crew, ii. Here's grunter and bleater with tib of the butt'ry, And Margery Prater, all dress'd without slutt'ry.
1725. Song [New Canting Dict.]. On red shanks and tibs thou shalt every day dine.
Tibb's-EVE, subs. phr. (old).—An indefinite date (Grose: 'Irish' . . . 'St Tibb's evening, the evening of the last day or day of judgment; as He will pay you on St Tibb's eve'). See Queen Dick.
Tibby, subs. (B. E. and Grose).—1. A cat.
