different between teener vs tenner

English

Etymology

From teen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ti?n?/

Noun

teener (plural teeners)

1. A teenager.
   • 1952, American Psychological Association, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association (1952), p. 159,

     "[…] adult periods and emphasizes the importance of the total teener in a social milieu."

   • a1968, Upton Sinclair, When I Was a Teener.
   • 1975, Fely J. Cruz, I Married a Newspaperman: A Collection of Articles, Verses and Short Stories, T. F. Valencia (1975), p. 1923,

     "To a Teener Celebrating Her Last Teen Year"

   • 2000, George Harmon Smith, Education is Broken, But I Will Help You Fix It!: Hundreds of Tips to Help Your Child Through the Maze, Xlibris Corporation (2000), p. 42,

     "Also, warn your teener that in this age of undisciplined classrooms, they are unlikely to have a teacher who demands that the class obey—(the major reason why European and Japanese school children score so much higher on ANY test than American kids)."

2. (US, slang) A sixteenth of an ounce of a drug.

Anagrams

• entree, entrée, eterne, rentee, retene

English

Etymology

ten +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?n?(r)
• Homophone: tenor

Noun

tenner (plural tenners)

1. (informal) A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note.
2. (film, slang) A kind of 10-kilowatt lamp.
   • 2008, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting (page 11)

     The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.

3. A tennis shoe.

Translations

See also

• fiver

Anagrams

• rennet

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tenner m or f

1. indefinite plural of tann

Verb

tenner

1. present of tenne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tenner f

1. indefinite plural of tann