Sc. Forms: 5 tuilyeour, -your, (tulyhour), 6 tulȝear, -ȝeour (-zeour), -yeour, tuilyair, -ȝour, -ȝeour (7 -zeour), 7 tuilȝier. [ME. tuilȝeour, agent-n. from tuilȝie TUILYIE v.: see -OUR.] A quarrelsome person, a brawler. Also in comb. tuilyier-like a., quarrelsome.
1444. Aberdeen Regr. (1844), I. 12. A common tulyhour and rebellour.
c. 1480. Henryson, Test. Cres., 194. Lyk to ane bair quhetting his tuskis kene Richt tuilyour-lyk.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 440. Semdill [is] … Ane mydding tulzear in ane battell bydar.
1583. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882), IV. 295. Tuilyairs and trubleris of the quyett estaitt of this burgh.
1650. in Butler, Ch. & Parish Abernethy, xxv. (1897), 389. Fighters and tuilȝiers to satisfy publicly by sitting on a seat in face of the congregation.
