subs. (old).—An Irishman: in contempt. Hence TEAGUELAND = Ireland (B. E. and GROSE).
1661. Merry Drollery [EBSWORTH], 335. TEG [stands for an Irishman].
1671. Bagford Ballads. With Shinkin ap Morgan, with blew Cap or TEAGUE.
1672. RAY, Proverbs. Like TEAGUE’S cocks, that fought one another, though all were of the same kind.
c. 1686–8. Old Song, ‘Lilibulero.’ Ho, brother TEAGUE.
d. 1704. T. BROWN, Works, iv. 275. Excuse me from TEAGUELAND and slaughter.
d. 1706. DORSET, The Antiquated Coquet.
| To TEAGULAND we this beauty owe, | |
| TEAGUELAND her earliest charms did know…. | |
| The TEAGUES in shoals before her fell. |
1706. WARD, The Wooden World Dissected, 70. He shall gulph ye down the rankest Stinkibus with as good a gusto as a TEAGUE does Usquebaugh.
1734. SWIFT, To Francis Grant, 23 March [SCOTT, Swift, xviii. 203]. I was a year old before I was sent to England; and thus I am a TEAGUE, or an Irishman.
