teh

Mistyping of the on a computer keyboard.

• enPR: tĕ, IPA^(key): /tɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ

teh

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of the, for humorous, sarcastic, or facetious effect.

   This is teh game for your new box!

   You are teh haxor!

   • 2007 October, GameAxis Unwired, SPH Magazines, page 14:

     This Beowulf is based on a new animated movie of the same name... so yes, this counts as yet another game based on a movie, which basically relegates it to teh suck status in the minds of most.

   • 2010, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 10:

     Spending Fridays at school was teh suck anyway, and I was glad of the excuse to make my escape.

   • 2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 78:

     Awl teh booze got drink, an Happy Cat's momz was liek, “Dey gotz no booze. Dis parti iz teh suck!”

• Teh is sometimes used in deliberately ungrammatical ways compared to the word the. For example, teh can be applied to adjectives; "He is teh stupid" is an acceptable sentence within the universe of teh usage, whereas ordinarily "He is the stupid" is not.

• bak kut teh

• -eth, ETH, Eth, Eth., HET, eth, eth-, het, the, the-

A prefixed derivative of eh.

teh m (plural teha, definite teha, definite plural tehat)

1. blade

• eh

• tĕh

From Proto-Bahnaric *t(n)ɛh, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *t₁iʔ ~ *t₁ih ~ *t₁iəh (“earth, ground”); cognate with Koho tiah (“earth, ground”), Mon တိ (tɔeˀ, “earth, ground, land”), Khmer ដី (dəy, “earth, ground, land”), Semai tiiq (“earth, ground, soil”).

• IPA^(key): /tɛh/

teh

1. earth, ground
2. dirt

• te

• IPA^(key): /teʔ/

teh

1. (emphatic) you (singular), thou

• tehhuatl

From Malay teh (“tea”), from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛh/

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• Hyphenation: tèh

tèh (first-person possessive tehku, second-person possessive tehmu, third-person possessive tehnya)

1. tea

• “teh” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Hokkien 茶 (tê) (Amoy dialect).

teh (Jawi spelling تيه, informal 1st possessive tehku, 2nd possessive tehmu, 3rd possessive tehnya)

1. tea

• ca

• teh tarik

• Indonesian: teh

• IPA^(key): [tʰɛ̀(h)]
• Hyphenation: teh

teh (stem -teh-)

1. (in compounds) bed of water

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 184