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 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.