C’est la vivacité, la rapidité, ce sont les petits temps
sur les pointes.--=CH. DE BOIGNE.=
TAQUINER (popular), le dandillon, _to ring_, “to jerk the tinkler;”
---- les dents d’éléphant, _to play the piano_.
TARAUDER (popular), _to make a disagreeable noise by shifting chairs
about_; _to thrash_. Se ----, _to quarrel_; _to fight_.
TARD-À-LA-SOUPE, _m._ (popular), _guest who is late for dinner_.
TARIEK (Breton cant), _tobacco_; _tip of money_.
TAROQUE, _f._ (thieves’), _mark on linen_.
TAROQUER (thieves’), _to mark linen_.
TARRE, _f._ (thieves’), vol à la ----, _picking pocket-handkerchiefs_,
or “stook-hauling.”
TARTARE, _m._ (tailors’), _apprentice_.
TARTE, TARTELETTE, _adj._ (thieves’), _bad_, _spurious_, or “snide.”
The word snite is found in Urquhart’s _Rabelais_, with the modern
signification of “snot,” or base fellow:--
Here enter not vile bigots, hypocrites,
Externally devoted apes, base snites.