teg
noun/tɛɡ/
Etymology First used to contemptuously refer to a woman, then later applied to a ewe in her second year. Possibly borrowed from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).
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UK, Dated, Dialectal A sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn.
- One Stringor, that brought a tegg from Wresill.1573, Priory of Hexham:
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UK A child's tooth.
- TEG [tɛɡ] - tooth (child's).1977, Jeremy G. Storr, Survey of the Dialect of Selston in the Erewash Valley, page 158: