tick-offn.
slang.
Fortune-telling; a fortune-teller. to work the tick-off, to practise fortune-telling.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irritation > irritate [verb (transitive)]
gremec893
grillc897
teenOE
mispay?c1225
agrillec1275
oftenec1275
tarya1300
tarc1300
atenec1320
enchafec1374
to-tarc1384
stingc1386
chafe?a1400
pokec1400
irec1420
ertc1440
rehete1447
nettlec1450
bog1546
tickle1548
touch1581
urge1593
aggravate1598
irritate1598
dishumour1600
to wind up1602
to pick at ——1603
outhumour1607
vex1625
bloody1633
efferate1653
rankle1659
spleen1689
splenetize1700
rile1724
roil1742
to put out1796
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
roughen1837
acerbate1845
to stroke against the hair, the wrong way (of the hair)1846
nag1849
to rub (a person, etc.) up the wrong way1859
frump1862
rattle1865
to set up any one's bristles1873
urticate1873
needle1874
draw1876
to rough up1877
to stick pins into1879
to get on ——1880
to make (someone) tiredc1883
razoo1890
to get under a person's skin1896
to get a person's goat1905
to be on at1907
to get a person's nanny1909
cag1919
to get a person's nanny-goat1928
cagmag1932
peeve1934
tick-off1934
to get on a person's tits1945
to piss off1946
bug1947
to get up a person's nose1951
tee1955
bum1970
tick1975
society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > with ticks
prick1536
to check off1839
tick1854
to mark off1875
tick-off1934
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > fortune-telling > [noun]
fortune-telling?1577
tick-off1934
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > fortune-telling > tell fortunes [verb (intransitive)]
to tell fortunes1413
to work the tick-off1934
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph a message [verb (transitive)] > record message
to take off1862
record1873
tick-off1934
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > fortune-telling > [noun] > fortune-teller
spaeman?a1505
cole-prophet1532
lot-teller1575
fortune-teller1612
fortune-flinger1642
fatary1652
fatiloquist1652
fortunary1652
fortune-speller1652
tea-groutera1833
tick-off1934
1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack ii. 18 Several show~people were in the bar. ‘You're working the tick-off, aren't you?’ said one of them.
1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack ii. 18 I discovered that ‘tick-off’ was the fair-ground slang for fortune-teller.
1966 Punch 3 Aug. 193/1 No palmists, tick-offs, character readers, mock auctions, pick-a-straw.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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