ted
A Teddy boy.
Noun
- 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...
Origin
From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.
Forms
Verb
- To spread hay for drying.
- Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying. - 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN:
Origin
Inherited from Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).