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Definition: Teddy Bear |
Teddy BearNoun1. Plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Teddy BearSynonym: teddy (n). (additional references) |
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Teddy bear
Barryman's original cartoon
A Teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear for children. It was named after former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy" and who enjoyed bear-hunting. The name is said to come from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi, when Roosevelt's attendants found and caught a juvenile bear. Roosevelt refused to kill the lassoed animal, calling it "unsportsmanlike", and "Teddy's Bear" was immediately publicized by political cartoonists. The first such cartoon appeared the following day, November 16: Clifford Barryman, an editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, immortalized the incident as part of a front-page cartoon montage. Barryman pictured Roosevelt with his gun beside him with the butt resting on the ground and his back to the bear, gesturing his refusal to take the trophy shot. Written across the lower part of the cartoon were the words "Drawing the Line in Mississippi," which coupled the hunting incident to a political dispute.
The teddy bear is an enduring, traditional form of stuffed animal, often serving the purpose of comforting upset young children. Morris Michtom and his wife Rose displayed two stuffed bears in the window of their Brooklyn store shortly thereafter (February 15, 1903), and received President Roosevelt's permission to call them "Teddy's bears."
At about the same time, in 1902 in Germany, the toymaker Richard Steiff produced a stuffed toy in the form of a bear cub. He launched the product at the March 1903 Leipzig Toy Fair. Michtom's bear had a more endearing, baby-faced appearance, while Steiff\'s more closely resembled a real bear cub.
In recent years, the Vermont Teddy Bear Company (C), located in the U.S state of Vermont, has become a popular source of teddy bear-oriented gifts in the United States.
Famous fictional teddy bears include Paddington Bear and Winnie the Pooh. Certain animal species, such as giant pandas and koalas, have benefited from their attractively strong resemblance to the toy and have received intense conservation efforts to preserve them.
There are many kind of different type of Teddy bears, some of them are intended for children to play with, and some of them for adults to play with also called "collector items" or "Designer bears". The first type are usually an unjointed bear where arms, head and legs are stitched to the body.
The other type (the ones for adults) are almost always fully jointed which means that the arms legs and heads are movable by being attached by with disks and cotter pins.External Link
Different kind of Teddy Bears
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Teddy bear."
Crosswords: Teddy Bear |
| Specialty definitions using "teddy bear": ROOSEVELT. (references) |
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Screenplays | Let's see if I can win the teddy bear! (Charlie's Angels; writing credit: Ivan Goff; Ben Roberts) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965) The Crippled Teddy Bear (1910) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sharon Begay demonstrates a stitching technique to her sister, Alta at the Navajo Teddy Bear Coop in Ganado, AZ..Credit: USDA. |
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| USA | Vermont Teddy Bear Co., Inc. (The) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "teddy bear": furry teddy bear. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
teddy bear | 8,521 |
teddy bear friend | 1,710 |
vermont teddy bear | 1,106 |
teddy bear baby | 732 |
teddy bear gift | 518 |
teddy bear picture | 264 |
teddy bear hamster | 235 |
collectible teddy bear | 212 |
teddy bear pattern | 116 |
personalized teddy bear | 111 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "teddy bear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lodër fëmijësh (slapjack, Taw, thread-needle, Touchwood), ari prej pelushi. (various references) | |
Arabic | دمية دب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мече (whelp). (various references) | |
Czech | medvídek. (various references) | |
French | ours en peluche, nounours. (various references) | |
German | Teddybär (teddy). (various references) | |
Greek | αρκουδάκι. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mackó (peter). (various references) | |
Indonesian | beruang-beruangan. (various references) | |
Italian | orsacchiotto (bear cub). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | テキスト終結 (end of text, rough texture, technetium, technetronic, technical, technical center, technical foul, technical knockout, technical point, technical term, technician, Technicolor, technics, technique, techno cut, techno lady, techno mart, techno sound, technocracy, technocrat, technoeconomics, technologies, technology, technology art, technology assessment, technology gap, technology transfer, technomist, technonationalism, technopeasant, technophobia, technopolis, techno-pop, techno-science, techno-stress, technostructure, teddy, Tektronics, tenant, tennis, tennis court, tennis elbow, tennis-wear, tenor, tenor sax, test, test campaign, test case, test driver, test marketing, test pattern, test pilot, test rider, testament, tester, testing, test-mail, testosterone, test-set, Tetoron, tetrachloroethylene, tetracycline, Tetrapack, Tetrapod, Tetris, tetrodotoxin, texture). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | テディーベア . (various references) | |
Manx | beareen lhiannoo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eddytay earbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ursinho para crianças, ursinho de pelúcia. (various references) | |
Russian | медвежонок, плюшевый медвежонок. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | meca. (various references) | |
Spanish | osito de peluche (teddy), osito de felpa (teddy). (various references) | |
Swedish | teddybjörn, nalle. (various references) | |
Thai | ตุ๊กตาหมี. (various references) | |
Turkish | oyuncak ayı. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anthrenus, Arctiidae, Melurus ursinus, RM:urs, urs brin, Ursidae, Ursus arctos, Ursus maritimus. (various references) |
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"Teddy Bear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teady bear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: betrayed. | |
-2 letters: bearded, beeyard, berated, breaded, debated, debater, derated, rebated, redated, tabered, treaded. | |
-3 letters: badder, barded, baryte, beaded, beater, bedder, berate, betray, brayed, bready, darted, daybed, deader, debate, derate, drayed, eatery, eyebar, rebate, redate, redbay, redyed, teared, tedder, traded, yarded. | |
-4 letters: adder, ardeb, arete, baddy, barde, bared, barye, bated, bayed, beady, beard, beery, beret, bread, brede, breed, dared, dated, dater, deary, debar, debye, deedy, derat, deray, derby, deter, dread, dreed, dryad, eared, eater, rated, rayed, readd, ready, reded, redye, reedy, taber, tardy, tared, teary, teddy, trade, tread, treed, tyred, yerba. | |
-5 letters: abed, abet, abye, aery, arty, bade, bard, bare, bate, bead, bear, beat, beer, beet, beta, brad, brae, brat, bray, bred, bree, byre, byte, darb, dare, dart, date, dead, dear, debt, deed, deer, deet, dere, drab, drat, dray, dree, dyad, dyed, dyer, eddy, eery, eyed, eyer, eyra, eyre, rate, read, redd, rede, reed, rete, tare, tear, teed, trad, tray, tree, trey, tyee, tyer, tyre, yard, yare, year. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-r-t-y" | |
+4 letters: butyraldehyde. | |
+5 letters: butyraldehydes, decarboxylated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 64 64 79 42 65 61 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100100 01100100 01111001 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e d d y   B e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0064 0064 0079 0042 0065 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471707091236716784 |
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