Anglish | sp | English |
Tail | n | A woman as a sex object. 2. one who carries out surveillance works |
Tailbone | n | The buttocks |
Tail it | phr | To die |
Tail off | phr | Run off or withdraw. |
Tail over Top | phr | Head over heels, topsy turvy |
Tail timber | n | Toilet paper. |
Tail wwater | n | Urine |
Tailwork | n | Sexual intercourse |
Tail-worker | n | A sex worker. |
Take | n | A cheat, swindler, scammer; deceive. 2. The box-office receipts: "The Take or The Takings." ' 3. an opinion; view, stance one's take on. 4. to become or fall in a state of take ill 5. bribery. |
Take a Blind Leap into the Next World" | phr | To pass away, die, take a blinder |
Take a licking | phr | To lose; to get poor results; to end in defeat |
Take a shot | phr | To take a chance; make an effort |
Take in | phr | To cheat, deceive, scam; defraud |
Take it on the chin | phr | To absorb the punishment/disappointment and move on |
Take the bit between one's teeth | phr | To assert one's independence; to act assertively |
Talk up oneself | phr | To boast; to talk arrogantly. |
Talking iron | phr | A pistol, a revolver, gun |
Talkshop | n | A place where a lot of talk takes place, but usually without much action. |
Tall stepping | phr | Excellent performing; good playing; outstanding |
Teapot | n | A locomotive, train, especially a steam train. |
Teeth outwards | phr | Superficial. |
Tell | n | A behavioural clue that reveals something one tries to hide. 2. a sign; a clue. |
Tell the World | phr | To say loudly, emphatically and somewhat boastfully. |
Ten sack | n | A small bag of illegal or illicit drugs, usually marijuana. |
Thank-you work | phr | Gratuitous work. |
That kind | phr | A person or thing that is regarded as inferior or disagreeable is said to be that kind |
Thick as thieves | phr | Very friendly |
Thiefland | n | Modern Australia, with reference to its convict past. |
Thimble-knight | n | A tailor |
Think box | n | Brain; head; thinking-box.. |
Thinker | n | The thinker; the brain. |
Thinking-box | n | The brain; the head. |
Thin on the Ground | phr | Sparse, well spread-out, in small number |
Thin time | n | A period of suffering or discomfiture. |
Third eyebrow | n | A moustache |
Third wheel | n | An unwanted or superfluous person. |
Thistle-digger | n | Countrified person; a rustic; bumpkin, hick |
Thistle-down | n | Children, like blowing thistledown, they wander. |
Thistle-seed | n | Gysies, because of their disapora. |
Thorny wire | n | An ill-tempered person 'prickly' person. |
Thoroughgood | n | A thoroughly good person |
Thrash | vb | To defeat; beat in a sporting event |
Threepenny upright | n | Or Threepenny stand-up: an inexpensive sex worker.(obs.) word from Victorian England. threepenny (thrup'ny) was the price, upright was the position (to facilitate speed, therefore rapid turnover of customers), "the deed" was frequently done in alleyways. Known use found in Bertolt Brecht's "The Beggar's Opera". |
Three-toed sloth | n | A patient with diminished capacities, usually from long-term abuse of alcohol and/or addictive drugs. |
Throat-latch | n | Larynx |
Throttled | adj | Wiped out by a wave when surfing by being slammed against sand, rock or reef and held down for a long period of time. |
Throttlebottom | n | An innocuously inept and futile person (politician) in public office; |
Throughshine | vb | Shine through (<OE þurhscīnan) |
Throw lead | phr | To fire a gun. |
Throwaway | n | Advertising circular; a letter box bill |
Throw shape | n | Dance to popular music |
Throw smoke | n | To consistently pitch fastballs in baseball. 2. to consistently bowl fastballs in cricket. |
Throw the book at | phr | To give a law violator the maximum sentence |
Thrown together | phr | A makeshift outfit or combination; unattractive |
Thumber | n | A hitchhiker |
Thistle-chins | n | Local residents (a circus word). |
Thusness | n | A manner, method, or extent |
Tide of red | n | The menstrual flow; red tide. 2. a common name for algal blooms. |
Tie the knot | phr | To perform a marriage; get or become married |
Timber-wolf | n | A lumberjack, timberjack or logger |
Time-box | n | Prison; penitentiary, jail. |
Time-needy | n | Those people who struggle to find a work/ life balance |
Tin bird | n | Aeroplane, plane. (N.Z. slang) |
Tin ear | phr | To eaves drop; to spy |
Tin fish | n | A torpedo (navy slang). |
Tin hare | n | Informal name for a type of rail motor (CPH class) used extensively throughout NSW between the 1940s and the 1980s. The name derived from a similarity to the electric hare introduced to greyhound racing at about the same time. |
Tinhornland | n | The world of petty gamblers, betters and punters. |
Tinshin off | vb | To abscond with money |
Tish | n | Excrement; a metathesis of 'shit' |
Toesmithing | n | Dancing |
Toe the line | phr | To obey orders; to meet all requirements with meticulous care. |
Toolie | n | A older man (25-35yrs) who preys upon drunken and disoriented schoolies . |
Toothman | n | A big-eater |
Top | vb | To hang; to be executed by hanging. |
Top dog | n | The chief man in the organisation |
Topmost rung | phr | First place |
Top off | ph | To assassinate; to execute |
Topped | adj | Assassinated; executed ' |
Top shape | phr | Excellent condition; first class |
Top the standing | phr | To take the first place among(st) competitors |
Tough | adj | Rough, vicious, aggressive, difficult; unfortunate; too bad (see "Tough shit") |
Tough | n | A "Tough" a violent, aggressive thug and stand-over man |
Tough going | phr | A hard an difficult situation. |
Tough shit | phr | Too bad (see "Tough") |
Tough stick | n | A patient whose veins are too hard to find when drawing blood. |
Town-shift | n | Confidence trickster. |
Treadway | n | A person incapable of dealing with technology; one whose presence causes a breakdown in all nearby electrical appliances. |
Trimmings | n | Money swindle from gullible people |
Tucks | n | Rheumatism |
Tumbleset | n | A somersault |
Tumbleweed | n | An itinerant, vagabond, pedlar. |
Turf it | phr | To go on foot; walk |
Twelvhynde and Twihynde | phr | The rich and the poor |
Twilight hangover | n | A hangover without alcohol, usually caused by over-reading, overworking, or staying up watching television until early morning. |
Twinklers | n | The eyes |
Two-mug | n | Traitor, duplicitous person, double-crosser |
Two-mugged | adj | Duplicitous |
Two-fisted | adj | Vigorous, forceful, energetic |
Two-time | vb | To deceive; to play one falsely; to cheat; to betray; to double-cross; to be a false-hearted lover |