teenful

English

Alternative forms

  • teenfull

Etymology

From Middle English teneful, from Old English tēonful, tēonfull (“grievous; vexatious; troublesome; woeful”), equivalent to teen +‎ -ful.

Adjective

teenful (comparative more teenful, superlative most teenful)

  1. (poetic, dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious
    • 1612, William Shakespeare, A Funeral Elegy:
      O, whither tends the lamentable spite Of this world's teenful apprehension, Which understands all things amiss, whose light Shines not amidst the dark of their dissension?
    • 1922, Reynold A. Nicholson, Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose - Page 91:
      Ne'er the sun might see Me bare who now with bloodshot eyes And teenful heart and cheeks how wan, Gathering bread in beggar's guise, From door to door must wander on.

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