tewel

Meaning

Noun

• A vent or chimney or pipe, especially one leading into a furnace or bellows.
• The anus, rectum or posterior.

Origin

• From Middle English tuwel, from Old French tueil, tuel, tudel ("tube, pipe") (whence modern French tuyau), from Vulgar Latin *tūta, from Frankish *þeutā, from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ ("pipe, channel, flow"), from *þeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- ("bird-cry, shriek"). Compare Spanish and Portuguese tudel, from the same Germanic source.