Thimble-twisters, thieves who rob persons of their watches.
Thingumy, THINGUMBOB, expressions used for the name of a thing which cannot be recollected at the instant.
Thin-skinned, over-nice, petulant, apt to get a “[raw].” See that term.
Three-cornered scraper, a cocked hat.—Sea.
Three sheets in the wind, unsteady from drink.—Sea.
Three-up, a gambling game played by costers and others of like grade. Three halfpennies are thrown up by one man to the call of another. If they do not come all alike, the cry is void, and the calling and tossing are resumed. When the three coins are all alike they are said to “come off,” and then all bets are decided according to the success or failure of the caller. When two men toss, they play “up for up,” i.e., they toss and cry alternately. When three or more join in, the gathering is named a school, and one man, who is called a pieman, cries to the halfpence of the others until he loses, when the winner of the toss becomes pieman in turn.
Through, finished. In America, where this word is most used in the sense now given, a guest who has had enough will, when asked to take more, say, “I’m THROUGH,” which is certainly preferable to the other Americanism, “crammed.”
Thrummer, a threepenny bit.
Thrums, threepence. Also, in Coventry, remnants and waste pieces of silk.
Thrups, threepence. See the preceding, which is more general.