Which is the thuskiest,—a dead actor, an ex-president, or a popular hero, now laid on the shelf?
I met a thusk the other day;
Three times I had to look
Before I recognised him—say,
’Twas only Doctor Cook!
How thusky, now, his polar jest!
As thusky as the way
A joke would sound, if ’twere expressed
In slang of yesterday!
Tin´tid-dle, n. 1. An imaginary conversation. 2. A witty retort, thought of too late, a mental postscript.
Tin-tid-di-la´tion, n. Optimistic day-dreaming.
Oh, the bright reply you thought of, after you had gone—the crushing answer that you might have given! Who does not know the tardy tintiddle? The questions you forgot to ask, the terms you forgot to make, the repairs you did not ask. Was there any closet in that corner room? Now, did that include water, or not? Tintiddling comes with tantalizing thought. (See Iobink.)
When you rehearsed your speech the night before, the chorus of applause came tintiddling to your ears. And when tintiddling you proposed to the girl, she fell gratefully into your arms.
When in tintiddilation, you applied for that position, how noble was your pose—how convincing were your words! But they were only tintiddles, and tintiddles never come out as you expect. (See Bimp.)
Chastely tintiddling are the wedding anticipations of the bride! (See Jujasm.)
Tintiddling vainly, I proposed
To Kate—and was accepted.
Next day (as you might have supposed),
I was with scorn rejected.