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Teri

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.

    'What's your name, by the way?' 'Teri.' 'Terry?' She spelt it for him. 'But you can call me Miss Teri.' Rebus smiled. 'I'll assume that's an assumed name. Maybe I'll see you around, Miss Teri.'

Etymology

A spelling variant of Terry, from Teresa.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Someone from Hawick.

Etymology

From Teribus ye teri odin, of unknown origin (though possibly Old Welsh).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).