TANGIER. A room in Newgate, where debtors were confined,
hence called Tangerines.
TANNER. A sixpence. The kiddey tipped the rattling cove a tanner for luck; the lad gave the coachman sixpence for drink.
TANTADLIN TART. A sirreverence, human excrement.
TANTRUMS. Pet, or passion: madam was in her tantrums.
TANTWIVY. Away they went tantwivy; away they went
full speed. Tantwivy was the sound of the hunting horn
in full cry, or that of a post horn.
TAP. A gentle blow. A tap on the shoulder;-an-arrest.
To tap a girl; to be the first seducer: in allusion to a beer
barrel. To tap a guinea; to get it changed.
TAPPERS. Shoulder tappers: bailiffs.
TAPE. Red tape; brandy. Blue or white tape; gin.
TAPLASH. Thick and bad beer.
TAR. Don't lose a sheep for a halfpennyworth of tar: tar is used to mark sheep. A jack tar; a sailor.