60 WEST CORNWALL GLOSSARY.
- Tom-toddy es coom lioam, coom
hoam; Tom-toddy es ooom Hoam ; With his eyes burnt, and his nawse burnt, And his eyelids burnt also. Tom-toddy es,** &c. Unde Jan Trenoodle, Tom-trot, hard-bake ; toffee. Tom Twut and Harry Dingle ! iTiterf. Tongue Tayas, Tongue Tab, a chatterbox. Tootle dnm pattiok, a foolish person. Top-dress, v. to manure land* Top-dressing, manure. Tor, prop, noun, a rugged hill, as Bough-tor (pron. Row-tor). Tose, V. to pull wool. Tosing, part, cleaning wool by pulling. Tosh, a large bunch. " She'd a toah of yellow ribbon in her hat."
- A toah of flowers."
Touoh-pipe (pron, tich-pipe), a rest from work to smoke a pipe.
- ' A change of work is as good as
a touch-pipe.^^ Tonsse, a fuss or hurry. " What's all the tousae ? " Tonssing, part, hurrying; fuss- ing. '*What are you touaaing about now ? *' Tonsser, a large, coarse, round apron, worn by seryants to keep their dresses clean when doing dirty work; it often has a "mocket**(bib). Towans, prop, noun, sand-hills (Dunes). Town-plaoe, a farm-yard. Towze, V, to pull about roughly. Towzing, part, pulling about roughly; whirling round. "I want something to stand rowsing and towzing," Toze, V. to walk quickly. Tozing, part, walking quickly.
- ' I saw him tosing down street."
Trade (pron, tra-ade), a mean thing. Doctor's trade, medi- cine. Sweet trade, sweetmeats. Spoken of with contempt '* I wouldn't take sich traade." Train-oil, expressed fish-oil, most commonly pilchard. Trapes, v. to walk ; to saunter. Trapesing, part, walking. " I've beian trapesing the streets all day to try and find my man ** (hus- band). Trawy, a trough. T. C. Treesing, part, idling. " Treesing away your time." Trestrem, bait cut up to put on hooks. Mousehole fishermen, F. W.P. Tribnt {pron, trib-ut), tribute; a percentage paid on ores raised. Trib - nt - ers, tributers ; miners who work for a percentage. Trickster, Tricker, an adept.
- He's a trickai^ for dancing.*'
'^Triddling, part, trifling; talk- ing nonsense." Garland. Trig, V. to support ; to set up ; to put a stone under a wheel to stop it. Trig-meat, any kind of sheU-fish picked up at low water. Large quantities of limpets and peri- winkles are gathered in Penzance on Shroye Tuesday ; this is called going a trigging. It was formerly the custom for boys and women to stand at the comers of the streets on that day, with black- ened hands, which they rubbed over people's faces. After dusk the men and boys went about, throwing handfuls of shells, bot- tles of filth, &c., in at open doors, taking down signs, and unhang- ing gates.
