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 1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, i. xi. He had already begun to exercise the tools and some of the women would give these names, my Roger my smell-smock, trouble-gusset, etc. ibid., i. lii. Ill-bred louts, simple sots, or peevish trouble-houses.

1821. Scott, Kenilworth, xxxvii. But once more to this same trouble-mirth, this Lady Varney.

Trounce, verb. (once literary: now colloquial).—To vex, trouble, punish; now to beat severely. [B. E.: 'Trounc'd, troubled, cast in Law, Punisht; I'll trounce the Rogue, I'll hamper him': Grose: 'to punish by course of law.'] Whence trouncing = a drubbing.

1551. Bible, Judges iv. 15. The Lord trounsed [Auth. Ver. 'discomfited'] Sisara and all his charettes.'

c. 1614. Faithful Friends, i. 2. Well, sir, you'll dearly answer this: My master's constable; he'll trounce you for't.

1772. Bridges, Homer, 184. By Jove, for all their bouncing, I'll give their rogueships such a trouncing.

1887. Scribner's Mag., July, 283. We threatened to trounce him roundly when he got sober.

Trout. See Norloch Trout and Peculiar River.

Trowel. To lay on with a trowel, verb. phr. (old).—1. To flatter or exaggerate grossly; to butter (q.v.). Also (2) to lie (Ray); and (3) to use powder, paint, or the like, without stint.

1600. Shakspeare, As You Like It, i. 2. Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.

1694. Congreve, Double Dealer, iii. 10. Paints, d'ye say? Why she lays it on with a trowel has a great beard that bristles through it, and makes her look as if she were plastered with lime and hair.

Trub, subs. (old colloquial).—A slattern; 'a short squat woman' (Ainsworth). Also truba-gully = 'a short dirty ragged fellow, accustomed to performing the most menial offices' (Halliwell).

Truck, subs. (colloquial).—1. Intercourse, dealing: e.g. 'I'll have no truck with you.' Orig. (and still colloquial American), exchange, trading, espec. the barter of small commodities; whence (in contempt) odds and ends, rubbish, and spec. bad food, cagmag (q.v.), mullock (q.v.). Also (now recognised) truck-system (truck-shop), etc. = the payment of wages in kind instead of money: illegal since 1870-5. As verb (originally and still literary) = 'to swop, barter, or exchange' (B. E. and Grose).

c. 1608. [Capt. John Smith, Works, i. 82.] Much other trucke we had, and after two dayes he came aboord, and did eate and drinke with vs very merrily.

1622. Mourt, Journal [App. New England's Memorial, 360]. Retaining Tisquantum to send from place to place to procure truck for us.

1716. Church, Indian War. Now they passed down into Punkatees Neck; and in their march they found a large wigwam full of Indian truck, which the soldiers were for loading themselves with.

1778. Annals of Salem [Bartlett]. About this time family stores were usually called truck She looked out of the window for the market people, to ask them if they would take truck for their produce.

18[?]. Chronicles of Pineville, 40. They purchased homespun, calico, salt, rum, tobacco, and such other truck as their necessities called for.

1844. Major Jones's Travels. If the people of Georgia don't take to makin' homespun and sich truck for themselves, and quit their everlastin' fuss about the tariff and free trade, the first they'll know, the best part of their population will be gone to the new States.