teh

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "teh"

English

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Etymology

Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.

Pronunciation

Article

teh

  1. (Internet slang) A deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic, or facetious effect.
    This is teh game for your new box!
    You are teh haxor!
    • 2007 October, GameAxis Unwired, SPH Magazines, page 14:
      This Beowulf is based on a new animated movie of the same name... so yes, this counts as yet another game based on a movie, which basically relegates it to teh suck status in the minds of most.
    • 2010, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 10:
      Spending Fridays at school was teh suck anyway, and I was glad of the excuse to make my escape.
    • 2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 78:
      Awl teh booze got drink, an Happy Cat's momz was liek, “Dey gotz no booze. Dis parti iz teh suck!”

Usage notes

  • Teh is sometimes used in deliberately ungrammatical ways compared to the word the. For example, teh can be applied to adjectives; "He is teh stupid" is an acceptable sentence within the universe of teh usage, whereas ordinarily "He is the stupid" is not.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

A prefixed derivative of eh.

Noun

teh m (plural teha, definite teha, definite plural tehat)

  1. blade

Bahnar

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *t(n)ɛh, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iʔ ~ *t₁ih ~ *t₁iəh (“earth, ground”); cognate with Koho tiah (“earth, ground”), Mon တိ (tɔeˀ, “earth, ground, land”), Khmer ដី (dəy, “earth, ground, land”), Semai tiiq (“earth, ground, soil”).

Pronunciation

Noun

teh

  1. earth, ground
  2. dirt

Classical Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Pronoun

teh

  1. (emphatic) you (singular), thou

Synonyms

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of teh – see 咧 (“in the process of; currently”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 咧).
For pronunciation and definitions of teh – see 硩 (“to press; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 硩).

Indonesian

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Teh

Etymology

From Malay teh (“tea”), from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛh/
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  • Hyphenation: tèh

Noun

tèh (first-person possessive tehku, second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)

  1. tea (plant; Camellia sinensis)
    Synonym: tanaman teh
  2. tea (drink made thereof)

Derived terms

Further reading

Malay

Etymology

From Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

Noun

teh (Jawi spelling تيه, informal 1st possessive tehku, 2nd possessive tehmu, 3rd possessive tehnya)

  1. tea

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: teh

South Slavey

Pronunciation

Noun

teh (stem -teh-)

  1. (in compounds) bed of water

References

  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 184
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