styen

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English

Etymology

From Northern Middle English stan, stane, from Old English stān, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz. Cognate with German Stein, Swedish sten, Dutch steen.

Noun

styen (uncountable)

  1. (Northumbria) stone
    • 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:
      Huge abutments o' styen, aw think they are call'd
    • 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:
      Ye wad thought his feet was myed o' styen, He gaw sic thuds wi' dancin-o
    • 1876, James Armstrong, "Wanny Blossoms": A Book of Song : with a Brief Treatise on Fishing, Fly, Worm, and Roe, page 48:
      Te kill a fish, or owt else, thoo
      Must hev a heart o' styen, man
    • 1891, The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore and Legend, page 209:
      He's warked as debbity an' been night lost—
      Haaf barried under sum greet faall o' styen

Anagrams

Middle English

Verb

styen

  1. Alternative form of stien
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