Ted

name

1. Acronym of Technology, Entertainment, Design, a series of global conferences.

   “Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.”

noun

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

1. 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 clothing.”

verb

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

1. To spread hay for drying.

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