Trantlemore (vb.)

To make a noise like a train crossing a set of points.

Trantlemore

Trewoofe (n.)

A very thick and heavy drift of snow balanced precariously on the edoge of a door porch waiting for what it judges to be the correct moment to fall. From the ancient Greek legend 'The Trewoofe of Damocles'.

Trewoofe

Trossachs (pl.n.)

The useless epaulettes on an expensive raincoat.

Trossachs

Tuamgraney (n.)

A hideous wooden ornament that people hang over the mantelpiece to prove they've been to Africa.

Tuamgraney

Tolstachaolais (phr.)

What the police in Leith require you to say in order to prove that you are not drunk.

Tolstachaolais

Tumby (n.)

The involuntary abdominal gurgling which fills the silence following someone else's intimate personal revelation.

Tumby

Tillicoultry (n.)

The man-to-man chumminess adopted by an employer as a prelude for telling an employee that he's going to have to let him go.

Tillicoultry

Tigharry (n.)

The accomplice or 'lure' who gets punters to participate in the three card trick on London streets by winning an improbable amount of money very easily.

Tigharry

Thurnby (n.)

A rucked-up edge of carpet or linoleum which everyone says someone will trip over and break a leg unless it gets fixed. After a year or two someone trips over it and breaks a leg.

Thurnby

Theakstone (n.)

Ancient mad tramp who jabbers to himself and swears loudly and obscenely on station platforms and traffic islands.

Theakstone

Tabley Superior (n.)

The look directed at you in a theatre bar in the interval by people who've already got their drinks.

Tabley Superior

Tooting bec (n.)

A car behind which one draws up at the traffic lights and hoots at when the lights go green before realising that the car is parked and there is no one inside.

Tooting bec

Tincleton (n.)

A man who amuses himself in your lavatory by pulling the chain in mid-pee and then seeing if he can finish before the flush does.

Tincleton

Tibshelf (n.)

Criss-cross wooden construction hung on a wall in a teenage girl's bedroom which is covered with glass bambies and poodles, matching pigs and porcelain ponies in various postures.

Tibshelf

Tolstachaolais (phr.)

What the police in Leith require you to say in order to prove that you are not drunk.

Tolstachaolais

Totteridge (n.)

The ridiculous two-inch hunch that people adopt when arriving late for the theatre in the vain and futile hope that it will minimise either the embarrassment of the lack of visibility for the rest of the audience. c.f. hickling.

Totteridge

Todber (n.)

One whose idea of a good time is to stand behind his front hedge and give surly nods to people he doesn't know.

Todber

Tingrith (n.)

The feeling of silver paper against your fillings.

Tingrith

Thrumstrer (n.)

The irritating man next to you in a concert who thinks he's (a) the conductor, (b) the brass section.

Thrumstrer

Tweedsmuir (collective n.)

The name given to the extensive collection of hats kept in the downstairs lavatory which don't fit anyone in the family.

Tweedsmuir