Citations:steven

English citations of steven

(Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) stevvon: to speak (especially loudly) or shout

• 1875, "A Riding Song", in The Oracle, volume 12, page 11:

  'Tis sweet to stay up in the evening,

  Heigho! Heigho! Heigho!

  With laughing and chaffing and stevening

  (A word that means shouting, you know.)

Middle English citations of steven

• 1460, Towneley Plays (1994) I.ii.17:

  God that shope both erth and heuen, I pray to the thou here my steven.