Meanings
plural tyebbles · alternative chebble
- Geordietable
Then some wer fair and fat, some nowt but skin and byen, / And at a tyebble sat a man near twenty styen—
1840, R. Emery, “Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water”, in The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect, →ISBN, page 303
Origin
- Middle Englishtable
- Englishtyebble
A dialectal reflex of Middle English table, featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.
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