Thud, the dull, dead sound made by the fall of a heavy body, or the striking of a bullet against any soft, fleshy substance.
Thumper, a magnificently constructed lie, a lie about which there is no stint of imaginative power.
Thumping, large, fine, or strong.
Thunderbomb, an imaginary ship of vast size. See [Merry Dun of Dover].
Thunderer, the Times newspaper, sometimes termed “the Thunderer of Printing House Square,” from the locality where it is printed.
Thundering, large, extra-sized.
Tibbing out, going out of bounds.—Charterhouse.
Tibby, the head. Street slang, with no known etymology. To drop on one’s TIBBY is to frighten or startle any one, to take one unawares.
Tib’s eve, “neither before Christmas nor after,” an indefinite period; like the Greek Kalends, Tib’s eve has a future application; an indefinite period of past time is sometimes said to be “when Adam was an oakum-boy in Chatham Dockyard.” “The reign of Queen Dick” is another form of this kind of expression, and is used to indicate either past time or future.