Teviss, a shilling. Costermongers’ and tramps’ term.
Thatch, the human hair. “He’s well THATCHED,” is said of a man with a good head of hair.
The Tavern, New Inn Hall.—Oxford University.
The thing, the style, the proper proportion. Application varied. A good appearance, a decent dinner, or a fair bottle of wine, is said to be “the THING,” sometimes “the correct THING.”
Thick, intimate, familiar. The Scotch use the word “chief” in this sense, as, “the two are very chief now.”
Thick; “to lay it on THICK,” to flatter unduly, to surfeit with praise or adulation.
Thick un, a sovereign; originally a crown piece, or five shillings.
Thimble, or YACK, a watch.—Prison Cant.
Thimble-rig, a noted cheating game some years back, played at fairs and places of great public thronging, consisting of two or three thimbles rapidly and dexterously placed over a pea. The THIMBLE-RIGGER, suddenly ceasing, asks under which thimble the pea is to be found. Any one not a practised hand would lose nine times out of ten any bet he might happen to make with him. The pea is generally concealed under his nail. Thimble-rigging has of late years given way to “broad-working.”