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Teal
Definitions
- 1 Having a bluish-green colour.
- 1 of a bluish shade of green wordnet
- 1 Initialism of Tasman Empire Airways Limited, the forerunner to Air New Zealand. abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
- 2 A surname transferred from the nickname. countable, uncountable
- 3 A ghost town in Cole County, Missouri, United States. countable, uncountable
- 1 Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks. countable
- 2 Abbreviation of triethylaluminium. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 3 Abbreviation of triethylaluminium. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 4 any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America wordnet
- 5 A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a blue-green color or pigment wordnet
- 7 A teal independent. Australia, attributive, countable
"In a bid to defend their inner-city seats, the Liberal Party has moved towards the environmental and progressive left in what can be described as a “teal strategy” that blurs the lines between the Liberals and the Greens."
Etymology
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923. The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).
From teal, a nickname given to someone considered to resemble this duck.
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