ted
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- Canada//tɛd//
- Australia//ted//
- India//ʈɛɖ//
A Teddy boy.
noun
- 1
A Teddy boy.
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
From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.
verb
- 1
To spread hay for drying.
Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).
Forms
- plural
- teds
- past tense
- tedded
- past participle
- tedded
- present participle
- tedding
- third person singular
- teds