ted

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ted"

Translingual

Symbol

ted

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tepo Krumen.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tepo Krumen terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĕd
• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /tɛd/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ted/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ʈɛɖ/
• Rhymes: -ɛd
• Hyphenation: ted

Etymology 1

From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.

Noun

ted (plural teds)

1. A Teddy boy.
   • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

     The teds made the most of rising blue-collar wages to peacock each weekend in pseudo-aristocratic suits and immaculate pompadours, while their straitlaced peers trudged through the grind of school and work in drab clothing.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).

Verb

ted (third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)

1. To spread hay for drying.
   • 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN:

     Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.

Derived terms

• tedder

Anagrams

• DET, DTE, Det, Det., EDT, ETD, det.

Latin

Alternative forms

• 𐌕𐌄𐌃 (ted) (Old Italic script)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈteːd]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛd]
• Hyphenation: tēd

Pronoun

tēd

1. Old Latin form of tē