tyebble

tyebble

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

A dialectal reflex of Middle English table, featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtjɛbəl/, /ˈt͡ʃɛbəl/

Noun

tyebble (plural tyebbles)

  1. (Geordie) table
    • 1840, R. Emery, “Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water”, in The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect‎[1], →ISBN, page 303:
      Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—
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