teh
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Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.
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teh
- (Internet slang) 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.
Usage notes edit
- 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.
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Albanian edit
Etymology edit
A prefixed derivative of eh.
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teh m (plural teha, definite teha, definite plural tehat)
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Bahnar edit
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Etymology edit
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”).
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teh
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teh
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Hokkien edit
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 edit
Etymology edit
From Malay teh (“tea”), from Hokkien 茶 (tê).
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tèh (first-person possessive tehku, second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)
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- “teh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).
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teh (Jawi spelling تيه, informal 1st possessive tehku, 2nd possessive tehmu, 3rd possessive tehnya)
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- Indonesian: teh
South Slavey edit
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teh (stem -teh-)
- (in compounds) bed of water
References edit
- Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 184