ted

• IPA^(key): /tɛd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.

ted (plural teds)

1. A Teddy boy.
   • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

     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.

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

ted (third-person singular simple present teds, present participle tedding, simple past and past participle tedded)

1. To spread hay for drying.
   • 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN:

     Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.

• DET, DTE, Det, Det., EDT, ETD, det.

tēd

1. Early Latin form of tē
   • 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription:

     𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃 / 𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌏𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌔𐌉𐌀𐌉𐌐𐌀𐌊𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌉𐌔

     IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED / ASTEDNOISIOPETOITESIAIPAKARIVOIS
     iouesāt deivos qoi mēd mitāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd / as(t) tēd noisi o(p)petoit esiāi pākā rivois

     The person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee / without thee […] calm with [these] rivers