† uptailsn.
Obsolete.
1. up tails all, the name of an old song and its tune. Also used allusively (see tail n.1 5, 5c).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > specific song
Greensleeves1584
loath to depart1584
up tails all1601
welcome song1681
Lillibullero1688
Hallelujah Chorus1775
alleluia chorus1819
knees up, Mother Brown1939
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iii. sig. C2v Hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, vptailes all, and a poxe on the hangman. View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Sharpham Fleire (1610) F j b Shee euerie day sings Iohn for the king, and at Vp-tailes all, shees perfect.
1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes K 2 Though I am no Poet yet I can make Ballads, To the tune of vp-tayls-all.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. V2 For love he doth call For his Uptailes all; And that's the part to be acted.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife v. 67 Mademois. Wy wat be de matter? Ras. The Matter?—why, Uptails All's the Matter... My Lady has Cuckolded my Master.
2.
a. (With all.) A jovial fellow; a reveller.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > frolicker
wantonc1450
friskera1549
a merry (or mad) grig1566
friskin1596
uptails1602
gamester1616
romp1678
romper?1780
frolicker1801
skylarker1818
larker1826
rollicker1837
larrikin1868
rompster1893
jive-ass1964
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. I2v Feele (my light-vptailes all) feele my weapon.
b. A woman.
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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]
wifeeOE
womaneOE
womanOE
queanOE
brideOE
viragoc1000
to wifeOE
burdc1225
ladyc1225
carlinec1375
stotc1386
marec1387
pigsneyc1390
fellowa1393
piecec1400
femalea1425
goddessa1450
fairc1450
womankindc1450
fellowessa1500
femininea1513
tega1529
sister?1532
minikinc1540
wyec1540
placket1547
pig's eye1553
hen?1555
ware1558
pussy?a1560
jade1560
feme1566
gentlewoman1567
mort1567
pinnacea1568
jug1569
rowen1575
tarleather1575
mumps1576
skirt1578
piga1586
rib?1590
puppy1592
smock1592
maness1594
sloy1596
Madonna1602
moll1604
periwinkle1604
Partlet1607
rib of man1609
womanship?1609
modicum1611
Gypsy1612
petticoata1616
runniona1616
birda1627
lucky1629
she-man1640
her1646
lost rib1647
uptails1671
cow1696
tittup1696
cummer17..
wife1702
she-woman1703
person1704
molly1706
fusby1707
goody1708
riding hood1718
birdie1720
faggot1722
piece of goods1727
woman body1771
she-male1776
biddy1785
bitch1785
covess1789
gin1790
pintail1792
buer1807
femme1814
bibi1816
Judy1819
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
wifie1823
craft1829
shickster?1834
heifer1835
mot1837
tit1837
Sitt1838
strap1842
hay-bag1851
bint1855
popsy1855
tart1864
woman's woman1868
to deliver the goods1870
chapess1871
Dona1874
girl1878
ladykind1878
mivvy1881
dudess1883
dudette1883
dudine1883
tid1888
totty1890
tootsy1895
floozy1899
dame1902
jane1906
Tom1906
frail1908
bit of stuff1909
quim1909
babe1911
broad1914
muff1914
manhole1916
number1919
rossie1922
bit1923
man's woman1928
scupper1935
split1935
rye mort1936
totsy1938
leg1939
skinny1941
Richard1950
potato1957
scow1960
wimmin1975
womyn1975
womxn1991
1671 J. Crowne Juliana iii. 26 How I shall laugh to see the little pretty uptails come to make a home-thrust at a man.
3. A card game.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others
laugh and lie down1522
mack1548
decoyc1555
pinionc1557
to beat the knave out of doors1570
imperial1577
prima vista1587
loadum1591
flush1598
prime1598
thirty-perforce1599
gresco1605
hole1621
my sow's pigged1621
slam1621
fox-mine-host1622
whipperginnie1622
crimpa1637
hundred1636
pinache1641
sequence1653
lady's hole1658
quebas1668
art of memory1674
costly colours1674
penneech1674
plain dealing1674
wit and reason1680
comet1685
lansquenet1687
incertain1689
macham1689
uptails1694
quinze1714
hoc1730
commerce1732
matrimonya1743
tredrille1764
Tom come tickle me1769
tresette1785
snitch'ems1798
tontine1798
blind hazard1816
all fives1838
short cards1845
blind hookey1852
sixty-six1857
skin the lamb1864
brisque1870
handicap1870
manille1874
forty-five1875
slobberhannes1877
fifteen1884
Black Maria1885
slapjack1887
seven-and-a-half1895
pit1904
Russian Bank1915
red dog1919
fan-tan1923
Pelmanism1923
Slippery Sam1923
go fish1933
Russian Banker1937
racing demon1938
pit-a-pat1947
scopa1965
1694 W. Winstanley Poor Robin B 7 b Whisk, Uptails, Sant, New-Cut,..With other Games besides, the which I know not.
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