tewed

After dinner uncle Joe made off to his piggeries; while aunt Dorothy fell asleep in a capacious old arm-chair by the fire, after making an apologetic remark to the effect that she was tired, and had been a good deal "tewed" that morning in the dairy.

Birds of Prey 1875

'Happen there was a lass tewed up wi' him, too, 'said he.

Rudyard Kipling Palmer, John 1915

'Happen there was a lass tewed up wi' him, too, 'said he.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Happen there was a lass tewed up wi 'him, too," said he.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

"But he's bin sadly tewed wi 'mother leavin' him an 'all," replied Mary,

More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

I counted the days while St Mark's Day, and tewed and rived and better rived to keep him out o 'his coffin.

More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

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.

Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

I should feel tewed like, if she came into the kitchen, worritin 'and asking questions.

Birds of Prey 1875

Coachman, so tewed him up with Sack that he lies lashing a But of

Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Francis Beaumont 1600

Page 63 conflicting directions which John Mellish gave him within the critical last quarter of an hour; but, having received his orders early that morning from the trainer, accompanied with a warning not to suffer himself to be tewed (Yorkshire patois for worried) by anything Mr. Mellish might say, the sallow-complexioned lad walked about in the calm serenity of innocence -- there are honest jockeys in the world, thank Heaven! and took his seat in the saddle with as even a pulse as if he had been about to ride in an omnibus.

Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863