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Jennings, James

"The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire"


To Tip. _v. a._ To turn or raise on one side.
Tip. _s._ A draught of liquor. Hence the word _tipple_,
because the cup must be _tipped_ when you drink.
To Tite. _v. a._ To weigh.
Tite. _s._ Weight. _The tite of a pin_, the weight of a
pin.
Todo'. _s._ A bustle; a confusion.
To Toll. _v. a._ To entice; to allure.
Toor. _s._ The toe.
Tosty. _s._ See TEESTY-TOSTY.
Tote. _s._ The whole. This word is commonly used for
intensity, as the _whol tote_, from _totus_, Latin.
To Tot'tle. _v. n._ To walk in a tottering manner, like a
child.
Touse. _s._ A blow on some part of the head.
Towards. _prep._, is, in Somersetshire, invariably pronounced
as a dissyllable, with the accent on the last: _to-ward's_.
Our polite pronunciation, _tordz_, is clearly a corruption.
Tramp. _s._ A walk; a journey. _To Tramp. v. n._ and
_Tramper. s._ will be found in _Johnson_, where also
this word ought to be.
To Trapes, _v. n._ To go to and fro in the dirt.
Trapes, _s._ A slattern.


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