![]() Texas Butter – Gravy made with flour, hot water, and fried steak grease. ![]() Tendsome – Requiring much attendance, as, ‘a tendsome child.’ Tenderloin – The red-light commercial district of a town, featuring brothels. Tenderfoot – A person new to the job, or a young person. Ten-cent Man – A small, narrow-minded, trifling man. Tejas – When the Spanish first arrived in America, the present state of Texas was called Tejas, a Spanish version of a Caddo Indian word meaning “allies.” Tee-Totaller – A thorough temperance man, who avoids every kind of ardent spirits, wine, and beer. Techy or Techy as a Teased Snake – Grumpy, irritable. Tare, Tear – A frolic, spree, riot, bender, rampage. Taradiddles – Falsehoods, traveler’s yarns or tales. ![]() Taps – To be on one’s taps is to be on one’s feet, on the move, ready to move. Taos Lightening – A name given to any potent liquor. Tangle-footed, tangle- legged – Drunk from bad whiskey. “I started raisin’ Cain, an my mama said she was going to tan my hide!” Tally – To live tally is to live as man and wife though not married. Tallow – Fat, whether on humans or animals. Tall Hog at the Trough – Superior, outstanding, exudes leadership. Talking-Iron – A gun or rifle, called also a shooting-iron. Talk a donkey’s hind leg off – To talk with no purpose. Take the Starch Out – Extinguish one’s conceit, widely applied to weakening, refuting or deterioration. “Well, if that don’t take the rag off the bush.” The cowboys who worked for the Aztec Land & Cattle Company, known as the Hashknife Outfit, in Arizona “took the rag off” many other “saddle stiffs.” Photo, 1897.
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