subs. (old).—A term of contempt. Thus TALLOW-KEECH (TALLOW-FACE or TALLOW-BREECH) = a very fat person: whence TALLOW-FACED = sickly, pale, undermade; TALLOW-GUTTED = pot-bellied; TALLOW-BREECHED = fat-arsed.
1595. SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5. 158. Out, you baggage! You TALLOW-FACE! Ibid. (1598), 1 Henry IV., ii. 4. Thou whore-son, obscene, greasy, TALLOW-KEECH.
1621. BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 519. Every lover admires his mistress, though she be wrinkled, pimpled … TALLOW-FACED.
TO PISS ONE’S TALLOW, verb. phr. (old).—To leacher oneself lean: like a stag after rutting time.
1596. SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5. I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i’ the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to PISS MY TALLOW.
1694. MOTTEUX, Rabelais, V. xxviii. He is nothing but skin and bones, he has PISSED HIS TALLOW.
