teen
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Is teen a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of teen?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.Examples: "In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene, / As it an earthly Paradize had beene […]"; "The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd."; "Miranda: O my heart bleedes / To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance,[…]"Synonyms: ill-fortune, harm, sufferingarchaic
2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.archaicobsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.obsoletetransitive
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.Examples: "Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde"obsoletereflexive
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.Examples: "Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd."; "It is still heard in Devon , especially by older dialect speakers, in such expressions as “I'an't a-teen'd my eyes all night”; “Teen the door, will ' e?”"; "She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches."Devondialectalobsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary