Definition of "Teague"

Let not poor Teg and Shone / Vender from der houses, / Lest dey be quite undone / In der very Trouses

1661, “A New Medley”, in Ebsworth, Joseph Woodfall, editor, Merry Drollery Compleat‎, reprint edition, Boston, Lincolnshire: Robert Roberts, published 1875, page 335

With Shinkin-ap-Morgan, with Blue-cap, or Teague, / We into no Covenant enter, nor League.

c. 1660–1663, “A Begger I'll Be”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896, page 29

He is not so nice as his Superiors, whom nothing will go down with, under right Nantz or Rum; he shall gulp ye down the rankest Stinkibus with as good a Gusto, as a Teague does Usquenaugh, and not be a Doit the worse for it.

1706, Edward Ward, The Wooden World Dissected, 3rd edition, London: M. Cooper, published 1744, page 70

Sempronious, in the second act, comes back once more in the same morning to the governor's hall, to carry on the conspiracy with Syphax against the governor, his country, and his family; which is so stupid, that it is below the wisdom of the O—'s, the Mac's, and the Teague's; even Eustace Cummins himself would never have gone to Justice-hall to have conspired against the government.

1779, Samuel Johnson, “Addison”, in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, volume 1, Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge Jr, published 1810, page 411