terry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Letters
- 5
/ˈtɛɹi/
Definition of terry
16 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.
- (Commonwealth, countable, dated, uncountable)Any makeshift cloth nappy folded from a large piece of absorbent fabric and held in place by a nappy pin or nappy fastener; a flat nappy.
- (euphemistic)A terrorist
name
- A surname originating as a patronymic from the medieval Norman given name Thierry, a cognate of the English Derek.
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A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname, or a diminutive of Terence or of any of its alternative forms.
“Tao was a voracious consumer of fantasy books like Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. When a class was boring, he doodled intricate maps of imaginary lands.”
- A male given name from Latin derived from the Latin for the third ("tertius") given to a third child or a child whose name has the suffix III.
- A female given name, diminutive of Teresa or any of its alternative forms.
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Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Of uncertain origin, possibly French tiré (“drawn out”), past participle of tirer (“to draw out”).
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