1884. Clemens, Huck. Finn. In about half-an-hour they were as thick as thieves again, and the tighter they got, the lovinger they got.
1889. Echo, 15 Feb. If rich, you may fuddle with Bacchus all night, And be borne to your chamber remarkably tight.
1897. Marshall, Pomes, 29. But although he was full, he denied he was TIGHT.
1900. Kipling, Stalky & Co., 17. It's Heffelinga that 'as the evil mind,' Shouldn't wonder if he thought we got TIGHT.
5. (Winchester College).—-See quot.
1891. Wrench, Winchester Word-Book, s.v. Tight, fast, hard. A tight bowler, etc. As superlative adverb now only used in TIGHT-junior, TIGHT-snob, TIGHT-rot, and other such uses are obsolete.
Tight-arsed, adj. phr. (venery).—Chaste; close-LEGGED (q.V.).
Blow me tight! See Blow.
Tight-cravat, subs. phr. (old).—The hangman's noose: see Horse-collar.
Tightener, subs, (common).—A hearty meal: cf. Kaffir's TIGHTENER. TO DO A tightener = to eat heartily.
1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., I. 70. For 2d. what is elegantly termed a tightener—that is to say a most plenteous repast—may be obtained.
1857. J. E. Ritchie, Night Side of London, 193. Nommus (be off), I am going TO DO THE TIGHTENER.
Tight-fit, subs. phr. (Vermont Univ.).—A good joke: the teller is said to be 'hard up.'
Tike (or Tyke), subs. (old).—1. A dog: spec. a cur (a dog with a docked tail: see Curtail); a mongrel. Hence (2)=a clodhopper, a churl, a mean snarling rascal: spec. a Yorkshireman (q.v.).—(Grose).
1363. Langland, Piers Plowman, 13,026. The Jewes that were gentilmen . . . Now are thei lowe cherles . . . under tribut and taillage, As tikes and cherles.
1440. MS. Morte Arthure, f. 91. 3one heythene tykes.
1548. Patten, Somerset's March into Scotland [Arber, Eng. Garner, iii. 114]. [Loon and] tyke [are favourite words of abuse].
. . . Gyre-Carling [Laing, Early
Pop. Poet. Scotland, ii. 20]. Wt all the tykis of Tervey come to thame that tyd.
1586-1606. Warner, Albion's England, II. x. Battus, Medea-like, Did worke no lesse a cuer vpon This vaine vnwieldie tyke.
1593. Peele, Edward I. Sacrifice this tyke in her sight . . . dip his foul shirt in his blood.
1599. Shakspeare, Henry V., ii. 1. Base tike, calls thou me host? Ibid. (1605), Lear, iii. 6. Bob-tail tike or trundle-tail.
1625. Jonson, Staple of News, v. 2. You are a dissembling Tyke, To your hole again.
1676. Cotton, Virgil Travestie (1770), 81. Tykes too they had of all sorts, bandogs, Curs, spaniels, water-dogs, and land-dogs.
d. 1697. Aubrey, MS. Royal Soc., II. The indigenes of Yorkshire are strong, tall, and long legg'd; them call'em opprobriously long-legd tykes.
1772. Bridges, Burlesque Homer, 2. At first approach he made a bow, Such as your Yorkshire tikes make now. Ibid., 151. A queer old tike, and full of jaw.
1795. Burns, Dumfries Volunteers. Oh, let us not, like snarling tykes, In wrangling be divided.
1821. Egan, Life in London, I. ii. Hundreds of individuals . . . feel as much interest in matching their tykes at Jem Rolfe's amphitheatre for a quid or two.
1823. Song [Bee, Diet. Turf, s.v. Hen]. A tyke and fighting cock, A saucy tip-slang moon-eyed hen.
1877. Horsley, Jottings from Jail. When I opened a door there was a great tyke lying in front of the door, so I pulled out a piece of pudding and threw it to him, but he did not move.
