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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

TEVEL, v. Also tevvel. Sc. usages:

1. To confuse, put in a disorderly state (Dmf. 1825 Jam., tevvel).

2. To behave in a disorderly stupid manner.Dmf. 1828 Carlyle in Early Life (Froude 1882) II. 37:
‘What think'st a he means,' said my father, ‘gawn up and down the country tevelling and screeching like a wild bear?'.

[A variant form, with alternative freq. ending and extended meaning, of Taiver, v.1]

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