teal
pronunciation
How to pronounce teal in British English:
UK [ti:l]
How to pronounce teal in American English:
US [til]
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- Noun:
- a shade of green tinged with blue
- any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America
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- Adjective:
- a bluish shade of green
Word Origin
- teal (n.)
- "small freshwater duck," early 14c., of uncertain origin, probably from an unrecorded Old English word cognate with Middle Dutch teling "teal," Middle Low German telink, from West Germanic *taili. As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue resembling the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923 in clothing advertisements.
Example
- 1. Her teal colored eyes bright with excitement .
- 2. His two-room apartment close by - where he lives alone , with a mattress on the floor and only a calendar on the teal wall - managed to survive .
- 3. Engineer and ultramarathoner brent teal 's answer may not satisfy the diehards , but he can tell you just how to do it .
- 4. The first lady had also changed and was wearing a yellow-green cardigan ( maybe the same one sasha was holding as they walked into church earlier ) , teal camisole , and a green skirt with flecks of red and white and buttons down one side .
- 5. Even with all these new measures in place , boeing 's plans to boost production of the dreamliner remain " hugely ambitious " , reckons richard aboulafia of teal group , an aviation consultancy .