Citations: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.)


 * 1460, (1994) I.ii.17:
 * God that shope both erth and heuen, I pray to the thou here my steven.