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- tab
- tabby work
- tabby, tabby lime
- table-man
- taffia
- tago
- taily
- take
- take-through
- talk
- talking
- tall
- tamaring
- tambran
- tambran molasses
- tame
- tamlin
- tampy
- tank up
- tar
- tar baby, black tar baby
- tar brush; lick of the (tar) brush
- tardee
- tarpum
- tarty
- task
- tassel plant
- taste
- taw, tar
- tea
- tear-coat
- tear-up
- tease-tease
- tee-essie
- teenage
- teeth
- teethache
- teethbrush
- teeths
- teleberry
- telephone call you
- television pole
- tell
- tell-bill-willy
- tell-tale
- temple
- temple flower
- ten to two
- ten, ten, the Bible ten!
- tender
- tender rebel
- tennis
- tenny
- test (glasses) tested glasses
- tha's, da's
- tha's, da's (2)
- thanky
- that side
- that time
- thatch
- thatch broom
- thatch house
- thatch palmetto
- thatch top palm
- thatch tree
- thatchberry
- the
- them
- them (2)
- them (3)
- them there
- there
- there
- there-so
- they
- theyself
- thick-lip
- thickes'
- thief, teef
- thiefy
- thin-lip
- think
- this
- this here
- this quality people
- this side, that side
- this time
- thistle
- thorny apple
- those
- thought
- thoughten, thoughtin'
- thrash
- thrasher
- threaden
- three days
- three-finger
- three-leaf
- three-quarter pitch trousers
- three-stones
- threepence lizard
- thrive
- through
- through and through
- through the bush, in the bush
- throw
- thunder-ball, thunderstone
- thunder-rebel
- thunder-snake
- ti-es
- tick for tack
- tickle
- tickler
- tickning
- tide low
- tider wave
- tie (up)
- tie somebody loose
- tie-tongue
- tie-tongue
- tie-y
- tiger grouper
- tight
- tight bowels
- tight up
- till, until
- timber
- time as
- time is quick on me
- time table
- timey
- timmer
- tin
- tin-tub bass
- tinchy
- ting-a-ling
- tip
- tippy
- Tippy
- tippy
- tissick
- tissick bag
- tissly
- title
- titta, titty
- to
- toast
- tobac
- tobacco dove
- tobacco-pipe fish
- toby
- toddy
- toe a line
- togather
- together at
- toilet
- toilet lizard
- Tom Fool
- Tom James Bird, Tom Jay
- tom-tom
- tommy
- tomott
- ton-a-mun
- tone
- tongue of the ocean
- tonky
- tony
- too
- too bad
- too much
- tools
- toothache tree
- tooths
- top
- top berry
- top string
- top tree
- Topography
- torch
- toreckly
- tosevening
- tote
- tote news
- tother
- tourist tree
- tow
- town
- township
- track
- track-road
- tracking
- trans
- Transportation
- trap
- trash
- trash (1)
- trash (2)
- trash house
- travel; take a travel
- traveling: he traveling
- treat somebody up
- treatment
- tree
- tree-root
- tribbet
- trick
- trifle
- trigger
- trimps
- trinch
- trinkets
- trip down
- trone
- tropic
- trouble
- truck
- truck out
- true-true
- true: too true to be a lie
- trumpet flower
- truns and truns
- truppence hazard
- trust
- trust no mistake
- truth
- trying to make it
- tuffy
- tulip
- tumble-turds
- tune-tune
- turbot
- turbot-skin
- Turk's Island
- turn
- turn off
- turn out (1)
- turn out (2)
- turn round
- turn-head
- turning-out
- turpintime
- turtle hole
- turtle pussley
- turtle weed
- turtle-back
- twell
- twelve o' clock
- twilly
- twist conch
- two bits
- two-face-ted
- two-minded
- two-three
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ID #5382
tuffy
[cf. OED toffee, toffy a sweetmeat made from sugar or treacle, butter, and flour boiled together (of uncertain origin; apparently originally dialectal and sometimes spelt tuffy, toughy as if named from its toughness; but the earlier form is the northern taffy, also Scots and US)] n. 1. a brown, sticky candy. <Black>
2. also tuffy coconut dried coconut. <Berry, Andros>
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Last update: 2011-08-15 14:12
Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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