EuroLex/E/Teddy boy

Teddy boy


 * Original language: English
 * Original form and meaning: 'a youth, esp. of the 1950s, affecting an Edwardian style of dress and manner, usually a long jacket and drainpipe trousers'

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


 * Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Russian: Teddy boy, meaning: the same as in English, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Bulgarian: tedi-bois, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: youth, rare; Greek: tedybois / -boissa, 1950s, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (obsolete);

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