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teddy

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈtɛdi//

Any stuffed toy.

noun

  1. 1

    Any stuffed toy.

  2. 2

    Variant of teddy bearAbbreviation of teddy bear.

Etymology

See teddy bear.

noun

  1. 1

    A type of all-in-one women's undergarment.

    Silk teddies and negligées up front, knickers fanned out on tables in the centre, bras hanging in the back - there are no minutes lost finding your bearings.

Etymology

Possibly named after a German-American designer, Theodore Baer.

Forms

plural
teddies, teddys
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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).