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▪ I. tief, n. West Indian and Black English.|tiːf|
[Repr. regional pronunc.]
= thief n. 1.
1873C. J. G. Rampini Lett. from Jamaica 178 Man help tief..to-day, 'noder time him help watchman. 1893H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 63 Tief, Negro for thief. 1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk x. 215 A tiefin-tief like dat deh tief Mus tief-tief till him dead. 1971Okike Dec. 11 Awrighto. Now make we talk business. We no be bad tief. We no like for make trouble. Trouble done finish. 1973Sunday Express (Trinidad) 1 Apr. (Suppl.) 12/4 Yuh know dem fellas was tief... Dey gone wit de money.
▪ II. tief, v. West Indian and Black English.|tiːf|
Also 8 teevee.
[Repr. regional pronunc. of thieve v.]
trans. and intr. To steal.
1788P. Marsden Acct. Island of Jamaica 43 Finding a pair of shoes..he took..them... He was ordered to be flogged... The negro all the time..cried out, Massa me no teevee, me takee. 1862W. G. Hamley Capt. Clutterbuck's Champagne vii. 143 De busha (overseer) no tief nuttin hisself, and no allow no-body else for tief nuttin'. He too honest for true. 1873C. J. G. Rampini Lett. from Jamaica 180 When black man tief, him tief half a bit.., when buckra tief, him tief whole estate. 1939J. Cary Mr. Johnson 247 You think perhaps we leave the money in the till and you tief 'em. Not in these trousers, Mister Poldedoodle. 1971Fremdsprachen XV. 64 When a teacher of my acquaintance asked where so-and-so got his wonderful new penknife from, back came the answer: ‘He tiefed it, miss’! |