Sc. Also tiri-, tiry-, tirry-, tirrie-, tery-, turry-, tira-, tirravee, -vie. [Origin obscure: some suggest a corruption of TAILYEVEY.] A fit or display of ill temper or passion; an unchecked outburst.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 342, note. He suspected his spouse had taken some of her tirravies.
1814. Scott, Wav., lxix. A very weel-meaning good-natured man … when he wasna in ane of his tirrivies.
1898. N. Munro, in Blackw. Mag., Feb., 184/2. I’m willing to make some allowance for a lover’s tirravee.
1910. W. Finlay, in Poets Ayrshire, 273. When a party ends up in a wild tirivee.
