Rudolph was unmarried; perhaps it was this fact that enabled him to waste money on all sorts of hobbies instead of going to his office with his little black bag and behaving generally as a "weel tappit" husband and king would do. ❋ Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker (N/A)
I had been dining, and it was Saturday night, and I had ill will to begin to it; however, they got me down to Clerihughs, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit henn under my belt, and then they persuaded me to draw the paper. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Now she sits in the ha like a weel-tappit hen, 35 ❋ Unknown (1909)
This flagon, such as we call a 'tappit hen' in my country, but far greater, I bore with me up the cellar stairs, and gave it to one of the guard, bidding him spill not a drop, or he should go thirsty. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
But come, gentlemen, don't let the tappit-hen scraugh to be emptied. ❋ Unknown (1871)
I can mak 'a sang; and anither is, I can mak' a tune till't; and a third is, I can sing the tane to the tither, that is whan I haena had either ower muckle or ower little o 'the tappit hen. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Lordship, with his old Grin, "The warm bluid is nae tappit yet;" so they brought him a glass of burnt brandy-and-bitters, which he drank with great Gusto. ❋ George Augustus Sala (1861)
Wayside Inn, stretched on three wooden chairs, with a little round deal-table before us, well laden with oatmeal cakes and cheese and butter, nor, you may be sure, without its "tappit hen" -- have we after a long day's journey -- perhaps the longest day -- ❋ John Wilson (1819)
Clerihugh's, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit hen ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
-- But come, gentlemen, don't let the tappit-hen scraugh to be emptied. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
I had been dining, and it was Saturday night, and I had ill will to begin to it; however, they got me down to Clerihugh's, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit hen [Footnote: See Note 2.] under my belt, and then they persuaded me to draw the paper. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Their bind was just a Scots pint over-head, and a tappit-hen to the bill, and no man ever saw them the waur o't. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
I loved the clackity tappit of the IBM keyboard I had at work and hated the soft, mushy rubbery feel of the Osbornes and Mac Classics I’d played with. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But come, gentlemen, don’t let the tappit-hen scraugh to be emptied. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Their bind was just a Scots pint over-head, and a tappit-hen to the bill, and no man ever saw them the waur o’t. ❋ Unknown (2008)
_tappit hen_, holding some three quarts, "reamed," _Anglicé_, mantled, with claret just drawn from the cask. ❋ Various (1841)
The body hauds at onythiug weel eneuch a 'day, but the minute he comes hame, oot comes the tappit hen, and he jist sits doon and drinks till he turns the warl upo' the tap o '' m. " ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
"What, my ain auld tappit hen!" exclaimed Mr Cupples, with a sudden reaction from the seriousness of his late mood; "Na, na, she shanna gang to the deil till we gang thegither. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
I had been dining, and it was Saturday night, and I had ill will to begin to it; however, they got me down to Clerihugh’s, and there we sat birling till I had a fair tappit hen24 under my belt, and then they persuaded me to draw the paper. ❋ Unknown (1815)
[DUUDE], [Wanda] is such a [tappit].
Check out the chestmelons on that chick, I'd totally tappit. ❋ MastaBlasta420 (2009)
Man did you see [Lisa] last night in her [commodore]? shes such a [tappit]. ❋ George Patterson (2005)
Jerry got himself some [acrylic] paint and loads of [LED lights], I reckon he's about to go Tappitize his [Cortina]. ❋ Karin Schonken (2008)
