teap

Yola

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English tipen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiːp/

Verb

teap (past participle ee-teap'd)

  1. to tip, toss, overturn, tumble one another about.

Noun

teap

  1. tossing
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:
      Than caame ee shullereen, ee teap an corkite;
      Then came the shouldering, tossing, and tumbling;

Derived terms

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71
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