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† tityre-tu Obs.|ˈtɪtɪreɪˈtuː, -rɪtjuː|
Also Titire-Tu, Tytire tu, Tytere-tu, Tittery tu, tittyry.
[From L. Tītyre tū, the first words of Virgil's first eclogue, ‘Tityre, tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi’, adopted as a designation.]
One of an association of well-to-do ‘roughs’ who infested London streets in the 17th c.
The name ‘meant to imply that these blades were men of leisure and fortune, who ‘lay at ease under their patrimonial beech trees’’ (Brewer Reader's Handbk.).
1623J. Chamberlain Let. to Sir D. Carleton 6 Dec., in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) II. 438 There is a crew or knot of such people..who..have made an association, and taken certain oaths and orders devised among them selves;..having certain nicknames, as Tityre-tu, and such like, for their several fraternities. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Navy Land Ships Wks. i. 77/2 Roaring boyes, and Rough-hewd Tittery tues. 1648Herrick Hesper., New-Yeares Gift to Sir S. Steward, No newes of navies burnt at seas; No noise of late spawn'd tittyries. 1693Southerne Maid's Last Prayer ii. ii, I remember your Dammee-Boyes, your Swashes, your Tuquoques and your Titire-Tues. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 361 note, It may be suspected that some of the Tityre Tus, like good cavaliers, broke Milton's windows shortly after the Restoration. |