H.L. Mencken (1880–1956). The American Language. 1921.
List of Words and Phrases 22
| take orders, vp., 130 |
| take silk, vp., 125 |
| take to the woods, vp., 60 |
| takings, 115 |
| talented, 39, 159 |
| talkfest, 199 |
| talk through your hat, vp., 365 |
| tamale, 101 |
| tangle-foot, 166 |
| tango, 103 |
| tanked, 100 |
| tank-town, 97 |
| tantane, 410 |
| tap, n., 116 |
| tapioca, 52 |
| tariff-reform, 123 |
| tarn, 57 |
| tarnal, 153, 318 |
| tarnation, 153 |
| tart, 154 |
| tassel, 215 |
| tasteful, 181 |
| tasty, 32, 36, 181, 194 |
| taught, 275 |
| tavern, 64 |
| taxes, 116 |
| taxi, n., 191; v., 185 |
| tax-paid, 176 |
| taxpayer, 116 |
| T. B., 189 |
| tea, 119 |
| teach, 275, 282 |
| team, 62 |
| tear, v., 275 |
| tea-shop, 168 |
| technical, 245 |
| teetotaler, 96 |
| tel, 245 |
| telefone, 246 |
| telegraf, 246 |
| telegrapher, 209 |
| telescope, v., 97, 161 |
| tell, 275 |
| temco, 196 |
| temeniollo, 411 |
| temporarily, 209 |
| tender, n., 113 |
| tenderfoot, 95, 163 |
| tenderloin, 116, 118, 191 |
| tenne, 410 |
| ten-pins, 116, 128 |
| tepee, 52 |
| temporary, 210 |
| terminal, 116 |
| terminus, 116 |
| terrapin, 51, 126 |
| tete, 362 |
| tête-à-tête, 249, 250 |
| teufelhunde, 333 |
| thal, suf., 329 |
| than, 302, 310 |
| thank, 279 |
| thanked, 279 |
| Thanksgiving Day, 133 |
| that, 294, 296 |
| that’n, 313 |
| that-a way, 313 |
| that gets me, 176 |
| that’n, 295, 297 |
| that-there, 295, 296 |
| theater, 222, 231–239, 240, 246–239, 240, 247 |
| thé dansant, 250 |
| thee, 298 |
| theirn, 291, 293, 304, 386 |
| theirs, 293 |
| theirself, 303 |
| theirselves, 303 |
| them, 291, 295 |
| them’ere, 313 |
| themselves, 303 |
| them-there, 295, 296 |
| thence, 307 |
| there, 81, 180, 307 |
| there’s no two ways about it, vp., 40 |
| thermos, 195, 196 |
| these, 295 |
| these-here, 295, 296 |
| thesen, 295 |
| These States, 88 |
| they, 291 |
| they is, 318 |
| thin, 275 |
| thine, 293 |
| think, 193, 275, 279 |
| thinnen, 275 |
| third-degree, 122 |
| this, 294 |
| this’a way, 313 |
| this-here, 263, 295 |
| this’n, 295, 310, 317 |
| thither, 180, 307 |
| tho, 244, 246, 247 |
| thon, 186, 304 |
| thoro, 244, 246 |
| thorofare, 244 |
| thoroly, 244, 247 |
| thoro, 247 |
| those, 295 |
| thosen, 295 |
| those-there, 295, 296 |
| thou, 294 |
| thought, v., 275 |
| thrash, 316 |
| thread, 230, 232 |
| threaded, 278 |
| threat, 232 |
| thred, 232 |
| three-bagger, 129 |
| three-of-a-kind, 128 |
| three strikes and out, 128 |
| thresh, 316 |
| thret, 232 |
| threw, 275, 283 |
| thrive, 275 |
| through, 133, 203, 284 |
| throve, 275 |
| throw, v., 275, 283 |
| throw a rock, vp., 64 |
| throwed, 275, 277, 283 |
| thru, 244, 246, 247 |
| thruout, 244 |
| thum, 232, 246 |
| thumb, 230, 232 |
| thumb-tack, 116 |
| thunk, 275, 279 |
| thusly, 307 |
| ticket, 41 |
| ticket-office, 97, 116 |
| ticket-scalper, 95, 97 |
| tickler, 96 |
| tie, n., 97, 115, 420 |
| tie-pin, 115 |
| tight-wad, 190 |
| tiles, 117 |
| timber-yard, 115 |
| tin, n., 113, 117; v., 117 |
| tinker, 116 |
| tin-Lizzie, 175 |
| tinned, 117 |
| tinned-goods, 113 |
| tinner, 116 |
| tin-roof, 116 |
| tipe, 246 |
| tip-toe, v., 23, 185 |
| tire, n., 223, 225, 226, 236, 237, 247 |
| titty-high, 393 |
| tiz, 195 |
| toboggan, 52, 160 |
| toccho, 410 |
| to-day, 253 |
| toe, 218 |
| toffee, 225 |
| toffy, 223 |
| toggery, 187 |
| toilet, 150, 200, 222, 226, 236 |
| toilette, 222 |
| tole, 275, 317 |
| tomahawk, n., 52, 383; v., 59 |
| Tom-and-Jerry, 99 |
| tomato, 215 |
| Tom-Collins, 99 |
| tommy-rot, 366 |
| tong, 108 |
| tongue, 231, 232, 244 |
| to-night, 253 |
| tonsorial-parlor, 144 |
| tony, 36, 96, 194, 314 |
| too, 314 |
| took, 275 |
| tooken, 285 |
| top, 370 |
| top-hat, 168 |
| top-liner, 114, 123 |
| topping, 170 |
| top-sarge, 370 |
| top-sergeant, 370 |
| tore, 275 |
| torn, 275 |
| tornado, 101, 125 |
| tornpeik, 398 |
| torpor, 226, 227 |
| tote, 40, 60 |
| tough, n., 159, 384 |
| tow, 218 |
| towards, 182 |
| towerman, 97 |
| tracca, 410 |
| track, 116 |
| track-walker, 97 |
| tractor, 195 |
| tradesman, 144 |
| tradesmen’s-entrance, 168 |
| trades-unionist, 137 |
| traffic, 170 |
| trail, n., 57; trail, v., 58 |
| train-boy, 97 |
| trained-nurse, 116, 163 |
| trait, 211, 212 |
| tram, 122 |
| tramcar, 116 |
| tramp, n., 159, 171, 317 |
| tramway, 116 |
| transom, 116 |
| translatour, 228 |
| transpire, 160, 162 |
| trapee, 308 |
| traveled, 241 |
| traveler, 222 |
| traveller, 222, 239 |
| trash, 67 |
| traveler, 230, 243 |
| traveller, 226, 230, 243 |
| travelogue, 186 |
| treacle, 10, 115, 122 |
| tread, n., 275; v., 278 |
| treasurer, 145 |
| treat ’em rough, 181 |
| tripos, 121 |
| tripper, 97, 114 |
| triscut, 195 |