"ted" meaning in English

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  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_text": "From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "teds",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Agriculture",
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        {
          "ref": "2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Teddy boy."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Teddy boy",
          "Teddy boy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛd/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ted"
}

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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English tedden",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
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        "3": "*teddan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *teddan",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*taddjan"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *taddjan",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "to strew, scatter"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "teds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tedding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tedded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tedded",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To spread hay for drying."
      ],
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          "hay",
          "hay"
        ],
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          "drying",
          "drying"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/tɛd/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛd"
    }
  ],
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}

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    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
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    "en:Agriculture"
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  "etymology_text": "From a pet form of Edward, in reference to Edwardian styles affected by youths.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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        {
          "ref": "2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Teddy boy."
      ],
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    },
    {
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    }
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    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
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    },
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      "name": "der"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English tedden, from a possible Old English *teddan, from Proto-West Germanic *taddjan, from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "teds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tedding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tedded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "tedded",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To spread hay for drying."
      ],
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          "spread"
        ],
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          "hay",
          "hay"
        ],
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          "drying",
          "drying"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/tɛd/"
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
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}