ted

Etymology 1

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

noun

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. 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 6, in Status and Culture, Viking

Etymology 2

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

verb

1. To spread hay for drying.
   Turning and fluffing the cut hay, or tedding, speeds and evens out drying. 2014, Ann Larkin Hansen, Making Hay: How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Bale, and Store a Nourishing Crop