1839. Hood, Sailor's Apology. And her tarnation hull a-growing rounder!
1837. Barham, Ingolds. Leg., 'Bagman's Dog.' Extremely annoyed by the 'tarnation whop.'
1848. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1 S. ii. I darsn't skeer the tarnal thing.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, v. 8. A tarnation long word.
1901. Free Lance, 30 Nov., 220. 2. This tarnation old country.
Tarpaulin. See Tar.
Tarradiddle, subs. (old).—A fib;
a yarn. As verb = to hoax (Grose).
Tarriwag, subs. (old).—In pl. =
the testes: the balls (q.v.).
1622. Taylor, Laugh and Be Fat (1724), 5. I would not lose my tarriwags for the best . . . in Christendom.
1838. Beckett, Paradise Lost, 82. By gum, my arse is bare! I wish I had a clout, or rags, Just to wrap up my tarriwags.
Tarse, subs. (venery).—The penis;
the tail (q.v.): see Prick.
Hence to strip one's tarse
in = subagitare: see Greens and
Ride; and tarsander = a stallion
(q.v.).
14[?]. Porkington MS., 10. Now e speke of a tarse, In alle the warld is not a warse Thane hathe my hosbond.
1686. Dorset, Faithful Catalogue [Rochester, Works (1718), 11. 32]. Her rapacious arse Is fitter for thy sceptre than thy tarse. Idem, 35. How often praised thy dear curvetting tarse.
1682. Juvenalis Redivivus, 7. Let's draw our pens and quit Tarsander's praise. [See also Note 7, page 31.]
Tart, subs. (common).—Primarily
a girl, chaste or not; now (unless
loosely used) a wanton, mistress,
'good-one' (q.v.). Hence
tartlet (a diminutive).
English Synonyms. [Note: The distinction between Woman, Wife, Concubine, Mistress, Harlot, and Bawd is very loosely observed in literary and popular usage, both in English and French.] Abandoned woman (or, generic, abandoned habits, q.v.); abbess; academician; ammunition wife (or whore); anonyma; aphrodisian dame; artichoke; article; Aspasia; Athanasian wench; aunt (Shakspeare); autem-mort.
Baby; badger; baggage; bangster; Bankside lady; barber's chair; barrack-hack; bat; bawd; bawdy-basket; bed-fagot; bed-fellow; bed-maker; bed-thrall (W. Morris); beef; best girl; bird (Shakspeare); bird-of-the-game; bit; bit of stuff (mutton, fish, muslin, calico, etc.); bitch; bite; bloss; blouzalinda; blouzabella; blowze; blow; blowen (or blowing); bobtail; bona; bona-roba (Shakspeare, Fletcher, etc.); brevet-wife; brim; brimstone; brown Bess; bulker; bum- (or bottom-)worker; bunter; burerk (or burick); buss-beggar; buttered-bun; buttock; buttock-broker; buttock-and-file (whore and pickpocket); buttock-and-twang (or -sham file = whore and no pickpocket).
Cab-moll; canary; canary-bird; carrion; carry-knave; case-vrow; cast-off; cat; chauvering donna (or moll); chopper; cleaver; cockatrice; cock-chafer; cocktail; coleman hedge (Halliwell); Columbine; commodity (Dekker); common Jack; common sewer; concubine; convenient; cooler; cotton-top; Covent-garden nun (vestal, or abbess); cow; crack; cracked
