(qep'a' 2017):  … for the sense of being close or not having wiggle room or leeway (If you were victorious, but just barely made it at the last minute or something like that, you could say tey yay.)

From this explanation I thought of “to scrape by”.

--Voragh

On 6/25/2018 10:48 AM, nIqolay Q wrote:

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:

N.B. do not confuse with the homonym {tey} "be uncomfortable,  be close".

Is this really a homonym? When the word was revealed, I got the impression it was more of an idiomatic meaning of {tey} rather than a separate word.

It's probably a reference to shaving.

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