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Ty

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //taɪ//

A diminutive of the male given name Tyrone, Tyler, Tyson, Tyron, and other male given names beginning with "Ty".

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Tyrone, Tyler, Tyson, Tyron, and other male given names beginning with "Ty".

    It all started when Nick Farmer bought George R. R. Martin a drink, but the plot really thickened when the linguist met Martin’s then-assistant Ty Franck.

Etymology

Clipping of Tyrone, Tyler, Tyson, Tyron, and other male given names beginning with "Ty".

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Forms

plural
Tyes, Tys
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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).