Obs. Also 6 tedyffre. [Origin obscure: perh. akin to TIDIFE.] The name of some small bird.
c. 1500. Parl. Byrdes, 193, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 177. The Tytyffer. I say, sayd the Tytyfer, we kentysshe men [Lansdowne MS., Syth, quod the Tedyffre with the Norfolk men], We may not geue the Crow a penne.
