A thorough temperance man, who avoids every kind of ardent spirits, wine, and beer.
A stump orator in Michigan, in his appeal to the electors, uses the following language:
I'm a man that will never refuse to take a glass of grog with a fellow-citizen because he wears a ragged coat. Liberty and equality, I say. Three cheers for liberty and equality, and down with the tee-totallers!--Mrs. Clavers's Forest Life, Vol. II. p 39.
Candidates for office ain't never near-sighted; they sees every body; there ain't no tee-totallers among them neither, for they treat every body.--N. O. Delta.
Entirey; total. A modern cant word, formed by reduplication, the syllable tee being used for the let...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Entirely; totally. The meetin' houses on one side of the water, how tee-totally different they be!-...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.