verb General Slang

telt

· verb · geordie

Told. Past tense, Geordie/Scots style.

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Told. Geordie and Scots past tense of 'tell' — preserves the older English pattern (like 'felt' from 'feel'). Standard English ironed it out to 'told'; the North kept the original.

“Aa telt ye that wad happen, didn't aa?”
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telt In A Sentence

Aa telt ye that wad happen, didn't aa?

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Variants telled

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What does telt mean?

Telt is the Geordie and Scots past tense of 'told'.

How do you use telt in a sentence?

"I telt ye that wouldn't work."

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