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WEST CORNWALL GLOSSAJLT. fi9 Throy-tiAg, v, part, cutiisg chips from sticks. Thumb-beans, straw ropes twisted around labourer's legs to keep off the wet. Thumper, a large person. That's a thumper ! " a great falsehood. Thumping, adj. very large. " A thumping woman." Tio-tao-mollard, a game; ducks ani drakes. Tiohing, v, part, setting up turves to dry, to prepare for fueL" Grose. Tidden, adj tender; painful. It came somewhat tidden to him, that had helped to maintain his mother all along^" t . e. hard ; he felt it a hardship. Gulyal. T. 0. Tiddly, v, to do the better or lighter household work. These three words, used long a^ to the mother of an old friend, thus: "What can you do?" said the mistress. " I can louster and fouster, but I caan't tiddly y*" said the Cornish servant. See Louster. F. W. P. J., M. B. Tiddy, a teat; mother's milk. Titty, H. R 0. Tiddy bit, a tiny bit Tidy, ady. decent; clever. "A tidy little fellow," well-made; plump. " A tidy little pig." Tie, a large wooden trough, through which a stream of water runs for the purpose of separating the ore from the dross. Tifle, Tiflle, or Tifling, a ravel- ling ; an imwoven threcul fh)m a piece of doth. Tifle-ont, Tiffle-ont, to unravel doth ; to unweave. " This cloth does not wear well ; it tifles out" Tight slap, a sharp, sudden slap. " I gov' her a moe tight $lap on the cnacka" Timbal, a mining tooL Timbering (pron, temberin), made of timber. " To go up the <«m- herin hill " is to go upstairs. Tember-man, a mine carpenter. Timdod^e, a stupid. Timersome, acy, nervous ; timor- ous. Tin-dresser, a man who prepares tin ore for the smelting furnace. Ting, V. to tie h)gether. Tinged up, iynp. tied up. " She's alius going about with that man tinged up to her aipemt string." Tink, a chaffinch. J. W. Tinker arter, v. to go courting. Tinner, a tin miner. " A water wagtail" BottreU. Toad-in-the-hole, a piece of meat with batter pudding baked round it. Toat, the whole lot. " The toat of them were there." Toatlish, adj, foolish; weak. "He's getting owld and toai- lish." Totling, J. W. Toit, Toitish, adj. curt; saucy. " She's bra' and toit." Token, v. to betroth; to point out. " He tokened me the way." Toiler, a man who collects the tolls or revenues of the mine. Tom-holla, a noisy, bragging man. Tom-horry, a sea-bird. "The common name of two or three spedes of Skua." Couch. Tom-toddy, a young frog ; a tad- pole. ** Tom-toddy, all head and no body." Tom-toddy, a game in which each person in succession has to drink a glass of beer or spirits, on the top of which a piece of lighted candle has been put, whilst the others sing,