or tatur, subs. (vulgar).—A POTATO (q.v.). Whence TATER-TRAP = the mouth; TATER-AND-POINT = a meal of potatoes: see POINT. Also as noteworthy, one or two phrases: e.g., TO SETTLE ONE’S TATERS = to settle one’s hash; TO STRAIN ONE’S TATERS = TO PISS (q.v.); S’WELP MY TATERS (see S’WELP).
1838. WILLIAM WATTS (‘Lucian Redivivus’), Paradise Lost, 57.
| Taste this, you’ll find it quite a treat! | |
| ’Twill to your TATER-TRAP prove nice. |
1856. H. MAYHEW, The Great World of London, 6, note. On this principle … the mouth has come to be styled the ‘TATER-TRAP.’
1869. Echo, 9 Sept. ‘Life of London Boys.’ They … would climb any where—where they would nick the TATERS, or apples, or onions, or anything else.
1891. Notes and Queries, 7 S. xi. 29. Uncommon fine TATERS them, sir.
