1653. Wilson, Inconstant Lady. After such fearefull apparitions Hee triggs it to Romilia's.
1676. Etherege, Man of Mode, iii. 3. There's many of my own Sex With that Holborn Equipage trig to Gray's Inn Walks.
To trig it, verb. phr. (old: Grose).—To play truant; to Charley-wag (q.v.).
To lay a man trigging, verb. phr. (old: Grose).—To knock down, to floor (q.v.).
Trig-hall, subs. phr. (old).—Open
house; Liberty-hall (q.v.).
Trigimate (or Trigrymate), subs.
(old).—'An idle She-Companion'
(B. E. and Grose); 'an intimate
friend' (Halliwell).
Trike, subs. (common).—A tricycle:
cf. bike.
1901. Pall Mall Gaz., 15 May, 1. 2. The commercial 'trike' is, perhaps, the least supportable of the various tyrannies on wheels which it is the perambulating Londoner's lot to endure.
Trill, subs. (old).—The anus: see
Bum [Halliwell: 'a cant
term'].
Trillibub, subs. (old).—1. Tripe;
hence (2) anything of trifling value
or importance. Also trillabub,
trullibubbe, trollybag, etc.
Tripes and trullibubs (Grose)
= a fat man.
1599. Massinger, Old Law, iii. 2. I hope my guts will hold, and that's e'en all A gentleman can look for of such trillibubs.
1614. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. There cannot be an ancient tripe and trillibub in the town, but thou art straight nosing it.
1637. Shirley, Hyde Park, iii. 2. But I forgive thee, and forget thy tricks And trillibubs.
Trillil, verb. (old).—To drink:
onomatopœia.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe [Harl. Misc., vi. 166]. In nothing but golden cups he would drinke or quaffe it; whereas in wodden mazers and Agathocles' earthen stuffe they trillild it off before.
Trim, subs. (B. E. and Grose:
still colloquial).—Dress: spec.
'State dress' (Grose). Hence
as adj. (and adv.) = spruce, neat,
well-groomed (q.v.); in sad
trim = 'Dirty, Undrest'; A trim
lad = 'a spruce, neat, well-trickt
Man' (B. E.); to trim up (or
forth) = to dress, make clean
and neat, set out: spec. to shave
or clip the beard.
1530. Palsgrave, Lang. Francoyse, 762. I trymme, as a man dothe his heare or his busshe. . . . Trymme my busshe, barber, for I intende to go amongest ladyes to-day.
1595. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 1. Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim. Ibid. (1601), Henry VIII., i. 3. What a loss our ladies will have of these trim vanities. Ibid. (1608), Antony and Cleopatra, v. 2. I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress.
1659-69. Pepys, Diary, i. 187. Before I went to bed the barber come to trim me and wash me, and so to bed, in order to my being clean to-morrow.
1696. Nomenclator [Nares]. Their fronts or partes which are in sight, being smooth and trim on both sides, their naturall substance remaineth rough and unhewne, to stuffe and fill up the middest of a wall, etc.
Verb. (old colloquial).—1. To call to account, reprove, thrash; hence, to trim one's jacket = to drub, 'dress down,' dust one's coat; trimming = a beating, scolding, or jacketing; trimmer = (a) a severe disciplinarian, also of things, and (b) see infra (Grose).
c. 1520. Wife lapped in Morrell's Skin [Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poetry, iv. 209], 717. For I will trim thee in thy geare, Or else I would I were cald a sow.
