teen

Etymology 1

Back-formation from teenager. Clipping of teenager. For more synonyms see at Thesaurus:teenager.

noun

1. Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old.

adj

1. Of or having to do with teenagers; teenage
   teen fashion

Etymology 2

From Middle English tene, from Old English tēona, tēone, *tēon, from Proto-Germanic *teuną.

noun

1. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble.
   The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen, / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd. 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xxv
   Your soul forgot her joys, forgot / Her times of teen; / Yea, this life likewise will you not / Forget 1866, Algernon Swinburne, Faustine
   With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. 1867, Matthew Arnold, A Southern Night
   That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XXI
2. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.

Etymology 3

From Middle English tenen, from Old English tēonian, tȳnan (“to vex, annoy, provoke”), from Proto-West Germanic *tiunijan, from Proto-Germanic *tiunijaną.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
2. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
   Þenne tened hym theologye · whan he þis tale herde c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II

Etymology 4

From Middle English tenen, tinen, from Old English tȳnan (“to fence, inclose, shut, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *tūnijan, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”). Doublet of tine. Cognate with Dutch tuinen, German zäunen. Related to English town.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
   Hie tho' off […] or th' dur may be teen'd. 1874 (1879), Waugh, Chim. Corner, 75
   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?” 1919, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 75
   She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches. 1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244