Noun: styen
Sample Sentences
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Huge abutments o' styen, aw think they are call'd [1827, T. Thompson, quoting "A Pitman", “Shields Chain Bridge”, in A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect: And Illustrative of the Language and Manners of the Common People on the Banks of the Tyne and Neighbourhood, page 109:]
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Ye wad thought his feet was myed o' styen, He gaw sic thuds wi' dancin-o [1827, T. Thompson, “Wreckenton Hiring”, in A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive, Chiefly in the Newcastle Dialect: And Illustrative of the Language and Manners of the Common People on the Banks of the Tyne and Neighbourhood, page 200:]
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Te kill a fish, or owt else, thoo
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Must hev a heart o' styen, man [1876, James Armstrong, "Wanny Blossoms": A Book of Song : with a Brief Treatise on Fishing, Fly, Worm, and Roe, page 48:]
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He's warked as debbity an' been night lost—
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Haaf barried under sum greet faall o' styen [1891, The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend, page 209:]
Nouns inflected like styen
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Northern Middle English stan, stane, from Old English stān, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Cognate with German Stein, Swedish sten, Dutch steen. See: German Nouns '
Stein', Swedish Nouns '
sten', Dutch Nouns '
steen'.