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tink, tink$s, tinker, tinkie, tinkin, tinkler, tinky,
tinker [ˈtɪŋkər]
also tinkler, contracted tink
n. An initerant pedlar or trader usually living in a tent or caravan. A contemptuous term for a person, a foul-mouthed, quarrelsome, vulgar person.
dim. tinkie
Compounds and phrases etc.
tinkie's maskin: Tea brewed in a cup.
tinkin [ˈtɪŋkɪn]: An abusive scolding. A slanging.
tink's tea: Tea brewed in a pot.
tinkle,
tinkle [ˈtɪŋkl]
v. To ring, chime, of or like a bell. To ring the bells about, to sing the praises of.
Compounds and phrases etc.
tinklin: Tinkling etc.
Tinnigum, Tyningham, Tynnigum, Tynningham,
Tinnigum [ˈtɪnɪgəm]
pn. Tyningham (East Lothian).
tino, tinos, tyno,
tino [I.Ork. taɪno]
n. A wooden skewer or spit for drying fish.
v. To spit fish, to fix them on tinos.
tinsal, tinsel, tinsell, tinsle,
tinsel [ˈtɪnsəl]
n. Loss, deprivation of anything, damage by loss. leg. Forfeiture.
taint, tent, tint,
tint [tɪnt]
n. Proof, indication, testimony.
Tintock,
Tintock [ˈtɪntək]
pn. A hill in South Lanarkshire.
tibbet, tip, tipp, tippad, tippen, tipper, tipperteen, tippertin, tippet, tippet, tippie, tippie, tippin, tippit, tippit, tippy, tippy, tuppeen,
tip [tɪp]
n. An extremity, apex, summit. The height or best of anything. An equal, a match. A light touch.
dim. tippie The very height of fashion.
dim. tippet A length of twisted horse hair to which the hook is attached on a fishing-line.
v. To put a tip or end-piece on anything. To cut off the tip. To surpass, excell, overcome, to match, to equal. To disappoint, disconcert. With up: to dress up, to smarten oneself, deck oneself out, titivate. To walk or dance on tiptoe, to trip with a light delicate step. To tap or touch lightly. I.Sh. To press the last drops of milk from a cow's udder, to strip.
pt. pp. tippit adj. Tipped. Choked to over-flowing, topped up with waste.
tippy
adj. Modish, fashionable, stylish, tip-top, first-class, superlatively good.
tipper
n. A beau or belle, a grandly-dressed person, a smasher.
adj. Well dressed.
v. To walk on tiptoes.
Compounds and phrases etc.
tippertin: A piece of card etc. Pierced in the middle by a pointed stick on which it is spun like a teetotum.
tippin: The act of putting a tip or end-piece on anything. A hair that binds a hook to a fishing line. Putting a tip or end-piece on anything.
tipple [ˈtɪpəl]
v. To drink alcohol, chiefly habitually.
Compounds and phrases etc.
tippler: A habitual drinker of alcohol.
tehr, tehre, tire, tire$t, tire$ties, tired, tiret, tireteese, tireties, tirit, tirt, tyre,
tire [ˈtəi(ə)r, ˈtae(ə)r]
n. A state of being or becoming tired, fatigue, weariness.
v. To tire, exaust, be or become weary or sick. To grow weary of waiting for, to long for or to.
pt. pp. tire't, tired
Compounds and phrases etc.
tirin: Tiring.
tiresome: Tiresome.
tire'ties: Of a child: tired.
untirin: Untiring.
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