EuroLex/E/Teddy boy

Teddy boy

  • Original language: English
  • Original form and meaning: 'a youth, esp. of the 1950s, affecting an Edwardian style of dress and manner, usually a long jacket and drainpipe trousers'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian tedi-boj [= English] mid20c the same as in English, status: restricted use dito ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch Teddy boy [= English] 1950s the same as in English, status: restricted use: obsolete dito ...
English ... ... '...' '...' ...
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish Teddy boy ... the same as in English, status: known as a foreignism, used only with reference to British or American contexts dito ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Teddy boy [= English] 1950s the same as in English, status: restricted use: colloquial, obsolete dito ...
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian Teddy boy [= English] 1950s the same as in English, status: restricted use: obsolete dito ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian Teddy boy [= English] 1950s the same as in English, status: restricted use: obsolete dito ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish Teddy boy [= English] mid20c the same as in English, status: restricted use: obsolete dito ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...
  • Annotations: * DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; ** CODEE = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.
  • Information on Other Languages: Russian: Teddy boy, meaning: the same as in English, status: word is known mainly to bilinguals and felt to be English; Bulgarian: tedi-bois, end20c, meaning: the same as in English, status: restricted use: youth, rare; Greek: tedybois / -boissa, 1950s, meaning: the same as in English, status: not (or no longer) recognized as English (obsolete);,