Definitions for teg

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Spelling: [teg]

IPA: /tɛg/

Teg is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in teg (egt).

Definitions for teg

noun

1. Animal Husbandry. a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn. the wool shorn from such a sheep.
2. Chiefly British. a two-year-old doe.
3. British Dialect. a yearling sheep.

Origin of teg

First recorded in 1520-30; origin uncertain

Examples for teg

Mrs. Tibs took in the girl, for she must have a drudge; teg had a penny given him, and the door shut in his face.

teg spat upon her threshold, and went, no one cared or knew whither.

teg was ragged, and none would employ him; begging was so unprofitable there was no living by it.

Laura luxuriated in the waggon; teg, less fortunate, trudged behind, begging as he went his food.