a. (or ? sb.) Obs. Also tyr-, -liry, -lary. [? Related to TIRL v.3] ? Whirling, flighty, trifling, trumpery: in a few obs. combs.: see quots., and cf. TERLERIE.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1550), 24 b. Bertha the quene … then beynge a Frenche woman caused kynge Ethelbert to admit them wyth al theyr tyrlery trashe.
c. 1560. Dr. Doubble Ale, 437, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 321. Farewell and adewe, With a whirlary whewe, And a tirlary typpe; Beware of the whyppe.
1638. Ford, Lady’s Trial, III. i. The best … prove themselves but flirts, and tirliry-pufkins [see PUFFKIN].
