tewed

tewed

1. simple past and past participle of tew

tewed (comparative more tewed, superlative most tewed)

1. (obsolete, dialect) fatigued; worn from labour or hardship
   • 1573, George Gascoigne, John William Cunliffe, “The Anatomye of a Lover”, in The Complete Works of George Gascoigne, published 1907, page 37:

     These lockes that hang unkempt, these hollowe dazled eyes, These chattering teeth, this trebling tongue, well tewed with carefull cries.

   • 1866, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Lorton of Greyrigg, page 114:

     He would take no medicine, have no doctor, change no habits—"what did they want to mak on him? he wad du weel eneugh! nowt ailed him to speak on— he was nobbut a lile bit tewed wi ' t' summer's wark, an' off his feed, like auld Horney in t'byre younder;"

   • 1868, William Shelley, “Aneth the Roden Tree”, in Flowers by the Wayside:

     Sair tewed wi’ wark, I laid me down,
     And sloomed aneth the Roden Tree;
     I had a dream I’ll ne’er forget
     Till Mercy’s right hand reaches me.

• “tewed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Tweed, dewet, dweet, tweed

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛu̯ɛd/

tewed

1. equative degree of tew (“fat”)