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Ted

UK/ʈɛɖ/ US/tɛd/ common informal

noun

1.

a tough youth of 1950''s and 1960''s wearing Edwardian style clothes

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).

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