tapishv.
/ˈtapɪs//ˈtapɪʃ/ Now dialect.
intransitive. (a) To languish, pine away; (b) to be mortally sick or diseased. (Often in past participle in intransitive sense.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > have wasting disease [verb (intransitive)]
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c1375 St. Aug. 499 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 70 I..Þat sum tyme was a bitter berkere..Aȝeynes lettres goode and mete..And I tapissed [L. tabescebam] vndur such lettring.
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Vj When Miners are troubled in the Mines by Damps,..yet..are preserved by being timely helped, and escape with Life; such a one we say, is Tapish'd, more or less.
1865 J. Sleigh Attempt at Derbyshire Gloss. (at cited word) Hur tappish'd yest' morn.
1875 Manch. Guard. 1 Mar. (E.D.D.) His brother said he thought he was ‘tappished’ with a decline.
1875 Manch. Guard. 29 Mar. ‘This arm's tappished’,..‘This wood's tappished’.
1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield 58 Tapish, to waste or pine away... ‘He tapished and died’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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