Definitions for tegs

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Spelling: [teg]

IPA: /tɛg/

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

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in tegs (egst).

Definitions for tegs

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 tegs

First recorded in 1520-30; origin uncertain

Examples for tegs

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

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

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.