tell-piet
Scottish and English regional (northern )
noun
= tell-pie.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in John Brockett (bap. 1788, d. 1842), antiquary. From tell- + piet, perhaps as an alteration of tale-piet.
- (as) nutty as a fruitcake
- asocial
- (as) of right (or by right)
- as often as not
- Asoka
- Asoka Chakra
- Asoka pillar
- as old as the hills
- as one door closes, another opens
- as one man
- a song and dance
- as opposed to
- as (or so) far as it goes
- as (or so) far as —— is concerned
- as (or so) long as
- as (or so) the saying goes (or is)
- as (or when or where) the fancy takes one
- asp
- a spanner (or monkey wrench) in the works
- asparagine
- asparagus
- asparagus beetle
- asparagus fern
- asparagus pea
- a spare prick at a wedding