tew
Americanverb (used with object)
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Dialect. to dress (leather); to beat or otherwise prepare (animal skin) to produce leather.
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Dialect. to tire out.
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Dialect. to worry, bother, or stress.
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Dialect. to shake, toss, or put out of a state of proper order.
verb (used without object)
noun
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How long a gote livs without giving it up, thare iz no man now old enuff tew tell.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
The duv hav alwuss been a kard tew define inosense.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
After he haz got through pollywogging he makes up hiz mind that this world want made for pollywogs and “nothing venture nothing have,” and then he turns hiz attenshun tew bigger things.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
"Darn the ruddled vixens who come a-drabbing into my mews, with a hussy tew hail you afoot and a baggage tew boot on the boot—" "Keep quiet!"
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He iz seckond only tew the crow in pettit larceny, and will steal what he kant eat, nor hide.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
But for all shoo tewed so hard, there was a gey bit o' wool left i' t' bag when ten o'clock com and 'twere time to get to bed.
From Tales of the Ridings by C. Vaughan
I should feel tewed like, if she came into the kitchen, worritin' and asking questions.
From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
But he's bin sadly tewed wi' mother leavin' him an' all," replied Mary, "and there's them fits that he has to contend wi'.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
Happen there was a lass tewed up wi'it.
From Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling
Ay, I’m fairly tewed and hattered with words: And yet, for all your wind, you shall not go.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
She said there was something very human about trees, that she had often watched them tewing with a great wind, tossing and fretting, but very seldom giving way to it.
From The Measure of a Man by Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
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