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 1709. Centlivre, Busybody, 44. Muzzle and tuzzle and hug thee.

1818. Scott, Midlothian, Ii. It is some comfort when one has had a sair tussel that it is in a fair leddy's service.

Tussocker, subs. (New Zealand).—A SUNDOWNER (q.V.).

1889. Pyke, Wild Will Enderby. Now, a 'sun-downer,' or 'tussocker' is a pastoral loafer; one who loiters about till dusk, and then makes for the nearest station or hut, to beg for shelter and food.

Tut, intj. (colloquial).—Tush (q.V.), PISH (q.V.). Also TUTS! and as verb. To MAKE TUTS for = to make light of.

c. 1500. Dunbar, Works (Paterson), 97. [Oliphant, New Eng., i. 363. The new interjection tut is seen.]

d. 1555. Bradford, Repentance. O hard hearts that we have, which make tuts for skin.

1597. Shakspeare, Richard II., ii. 3. 87. Tut, tut! Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle.

1605. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 3. Tut, I am confident in thee, thou shalt see't.

1849. Lytton, Caxtons, viii. iii. In another moment the member of Parliament had forgotten the statist, and was pishing and tutting over the Globe or the Sun.

A TUT FOR A TUSH, phr. (old).—A TIT FOR tat (q.v.): see Tush.

TUTIVILLUS, subs. (old).—An old name for a celebrated demon, who is said to have collected all the fragments of words which the priests had skipped over or mutilated in the performance of the service, and carried them to hell.

Tutting, subs. (provincial).—'A tea-drinking for women, succeeded by stronger potations in company of the other sex, and ending in ribaldry and debauchery. So called only, I believe, in Lincoln; in other places in the county it is known as a bun-feast. Now obsolete, or nearly so' (Halliwell).

Tuttle (or Tuttle Nask), subs. (old).—'The Bridewell in Tuttle-Fields' (B. E.): closed in 1878.

Tut-WORK, subs. phr. (workmen's).—Piece-work.

Tuz I, phr. (Felsted School).—The same as Fainits (q.v.), Bags I (q.v.).

Tuzzymuzzy, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum: see Monosyllable (Bailey).

TWACHIL (or TWACHYLLE), subs. (old).—The female pudendum: see Monosyllable, and cf. TWAT.

Twaddle (Twattle, etc.), subs. (old colloquial).—1. Gabble, STUFF AND NONSENSE (q.V.); (2) a prosy chatterbox, babbler, driveller: also twaddler (twattler, twattle-basket, or twattle-brains). As verb = to clack, prate, rattle on; TWADDLING (or TWADDLEY) = (1) silly, loquacious, inane; (2) trifling, paltry, petty. Also reduplicated in TWITTLE-TWATTLE.

15[?]. King and Miller of Mansfield [Child, Ballads, viii. 43]. You feed us with twatling dishes soe small.

1577. Stanihurst, Descr. Ireland, vi. Let vs in Gods name leaue lieng for varlets, berding for ruffians, facing for crakers, chatting for twattlers. Ibid. (1582), Æneid, iv. [Arber], 101. As readye forgde fittons as true tales vaynelye toe TWATTLE.