tyebble
English
Alternative forms
- chebble
Etymology
A dialectal reflex of Middle English table, featuring the local change of Middle English /aː/ to /jɛ/.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtjɛbəl/, /ˈtʃɛbəl/
Noun
tyebble (plural tyebbles)
- (Tyneside) table
- 1840, R. Emery, “Newcastle Beer versus Spaw Water”, in The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect, →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—