2. (colloquial).—The thing (q.v.). Thus that's the tittup = that's the thing; the correct tittup = the correct thing.
Tittery, subs. (old).—Gin: see
White Satin and Drinks.
1725. G. Smith, Compleate Distiller [Dowell, Taxes in England, iv. 103]. Gin . . . sold under the names of double geneva, royal geneva, celestial geneva, tittery. . .
1731. Bailey, Eng. Dict., s.v. Tityre, a nickname for the liquor called geneva, probably so called because it makes persons merry, laugh, and titter.
Tittery-tu (or Tityre-tu), subs.
phr. (old).—A roaring boy; a
street-ruffian; a Mohawk (q.v.).
[Century: In some fanciful
allusion to the first line of the
first Eclogue of Virgil,—Tityre
tu patulæ recubans, etc.]
1616-25. Court and Times James I. [Oliphant, New Eng., ii. 73. Young gentlemen form themselves into a club bearing the name of Tityre tu; these rioters kept the name until the Restoration].
1630. Taylor, Works [Nares]. Roaring boyes, and rough-hewd tittery-tues.
1647-8. Herrick, Hesperides. 'New Year's Gift . . . to Sir Simeon Steward.' No noise of late-spawned Tittyries.
d. 1826. Gifford [Note on Ford's Sun's Darling, i. 1]. Some of the Tityre-tu's, not long after the appearance of this drama (1624), appear to have been brought before the Council.
Tivy (or Tivvy), subs. (venery).—The
female pudendum: see Monosyllable.
Adv. (hunting).—Tantivy (q.v.)!
1669. Dryden, Tyrannick Love, iv. 1. In a bright moonshine while winds whistle loud, Tivy, tivy, tivy, we mount and we fly.
Tizzy, subs. (common).—A sixpence:
see Rhino (Grose).
Hence tizzy-poole (Winchester) = a
fives ball (costing
6d. and formerly sold by a head
porter named Poole); tizzy-tick
(Harrow) = an order on a tradesman
to the extent of 6d. a day.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, ii. 3. Hand us over three browns out of that 'ere tizzy.
1849. Lytton, Caxtons, v. 1. There's an old 'oman . . . who will show you all that's worth seeing—the walks and the big cascade—for a tizzy.
To, prep. (American: vulgar).—At;
in (of places): thus 'I shall
be to hum' (home); 'He lives
to Boston.'
1837. Haliburton, Sam Slick [Bartlett]. I have forgot what little I learnt to night-school.
1858. Rome Sentinel, Sept. The boiler . . . passed through the main building . . . without injuring the workmen there, although men were to work on each side of where the boiler passed.
Toad, subs. (old).—1. A term of
contempt; and (2) a jocular address:
e.g. 'You little toad':
cf. monkey, rogue, etc. Also
toadling.
1621. Burton, Anat. Melan., II. iii. iii. Thou discontented wretch, thou coveteous niggard . . . thou ambitious and swelling toad.
1774. Bridges, Barlesque Homer, 203. Æneas swore it was not fair One man should box with such a pair Of ill-look'd toads.
1779. Johnson [D'Arblay, Diary, i. 133]. Your shyness, and slyness, and pretending to know nothing never took me in . . . I always knew you for a toadling.
1847. Bronté, Jane Eyre, iii. If she were a nice pretty child one might compassionate her forlornness, but one can not really care for such a little toad as that.
