teabaid

a taunt, repartee (Dial.), teab, a flippant person's mout (M`A.), teibidh, smart: "cutting", Early Irish tepe (to-aith-be, Stokes), a cutting, Old Irish taipe, concisio, brevitas: *tad-be (= to-ad-be), reduced root be, cut, imdibe, circumcisio, etc., root bi, bin, as in bean, touch, q.v.