† tailyeveyv.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To reel from side to side, move to and fro.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > rock
rocka1398
tailyevey1513
totter1668
jow1816
sally1887
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xiv. 77 Quhow that the schip did rok and tailȝevey For lak of a gud sterisman on the se.
Derivatives
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > rocking > an instance or spell of
rock1559
tailȝeveya1568
a1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvi. 8 Scho will sale all the wintirnight, And nevir tak a telȝevie.
c1579 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 157 Betuixt the tua [Charybdis and Scylla] we tuik sik taillȝeweis, At hank and buick we skippit syndrie seis.
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v.1513- to give it some welly
- to give it the gas
- to give it the gun
- to give it the long handle
- to give it the verbal
- to give it the verbals
- to give it to someone pretty stiff
- to give it to someone stiff
- to give it up
- to give it verbal
- to give it verbals
- to give item
- to give its head
- to give jesse
- to give jotters
- to give journey of battle, treaty
- to give kennedy
- to give knowledge
- to give laldy
- to give laud
- to give law
- to give law to
- to give leave
- to give leg
- to give leg-bail