tew

American  

[tyoo] / tju /

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

"Hoity-toity, what the devil's tew pay?" said Rolfe.

From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

I would like tew hav courage enuff tew face the devil himself, if he waz the least bit sassy tew to me.

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

The deakon haz mi entire simpathy for the remarks made tew the ram.

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.