tew

American  

[tyoo] / tyu /

verb (used with object)

tewed, tewing

1. Dialect. to dress (leather); to beat or otherwise prepare (animal skin) to produce leather.

2. Dialect. to tire out.

3. Dialect. to worry, bother, or stress.

4. Dialect. to shake, toss, or put out of a state of proper order.

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verb (used without object)

tewed, tewing

1. Dialect. to work hard until tired.

noun

1. Dialect. a state of worry or upset.

Example Sentences

There are simply tew many exceptions to the rool�even when 'tew os get together tew say "boo."

From Time Magazine Archive

If a fellow begins tew wander, and git out ov the straight and narrow path, it is curious how quick he will begin to go to the——.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

When I waz a boy and had just begun tew chew tobacco, i waz told that butter cum from the cow’s horn—I hav since found out that this iz another cussed old lie.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

Thare seems tew be kases whare thare aint enny branes at all, but this iz a mistake.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

“Cow’s Horn.”—Two bony projeckshuns, curved, crooked 60 or strate, worn bi the cows on the apeks of their heds, for ornament in times ov peace, and used when they go into war tew stab with.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.