teap

Yola

Alternative forms

• taape, tape

Etymology

From Middle English tipen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːp/

Verb

teap (past participle ee-teap'd)

1. to tip, toss, overturn, tumble one another about.

Noun

teap

1. tossing
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:

     Than caame ee shullereen, ee teap an corkite;

     Then came the shouldering, tossing, and tumbling;

Derived terms

• curtape

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 71