different between wanton vs tee

English

Etymology

From Middle English wantoun, wantowen, wanto?en, wantowe (“uneducated; unrestrained; licentious; sportive; playful”), from wan- (“not, un-, mis-”) + towen, i-towen (“educated”, literally “towed; led; drawn”), from Old English togen, ?etogen, past participle of t?on (“to train, discipline”), equivalent to wan- +? towed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?nt?n/
• (US) enPR: wän't?n, IPA^(key): /?w?nt?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?w?nt?n/, /?w?nt?n/
• Rhymes: -?nt?n
• Homophone: wonton (some accents)

Adjective

wanton (comparative wantoner, superlative wantonest)

1. (archaic) Undisciplined, unruly; not able to be controlled.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, IV.1:

     As Flies to wanton Boyes are we to th' Gods, / They kill us for their sport.

   • 1785, William Cowper, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper [...] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, OCLC 221351486; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787, OCLC 23630717, page 87:

     'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wi?h to ?hine, the thir?t to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ?uch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, loo?e, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, va?t / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.

2. (obsolete) Playful, sportive; merry or carefree.
   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1:

     The grave simplicity of the philosopher was ill calculated to engage her wanton levity, or to fix that unbounded passion for variety, which often discovered personal merit in the meanest of mankind.

3. Lewd, immoral; sexually open, unchaste.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:

     if wenches will hang out lures for fellows, it is no matter what they suffer: I detest such creatures; and it would be much better for them that their faces had been seamed with the smallpox: but I must confess I never saw any of this wanton behaviour in poor Jenny [...].

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:

     I know I ought never to have dreamt of sending that valentine—forgive me, sir—it was a wanton thing which no woman with any self-respect should have done.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:

     People should not marry too young, because, if they do, the children will be weak and female, the wives will become wanton, and the husbands stunted in their growth.

4. Capricious, reckless of morality, justice etc.; acting without regard for the law or the well-being of others; gratuitous.
   • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility:

     Edward himself, now thoroughly enlightened on her character, had no scruple in believing her capable of the utmost meanness of wanton ill-nature.

   • 2009, Ben White, The Guardian, 10 Aug 2009:

     these developments in Gaza are a consequence of the state of siege that the tiny territory has been under – a society that has been fenced-in, starved, and seen its very fabric torn apart by unemployment and wanton military destruction.

5. (archaic) Extravagant, unrestrained, excessive.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I:

     the market price will rise more or less above the natural price, according as either the greatness of the deficiency, or the wealth and wanton luxury of the competitors, happen to animate more or less the eagerness of the competition.

   • 1876, John Ruskin, Letters, 19 Jan 1876:

     But do not think it argues change of temper since I wrote the Frère review, or a wanton praise of one man and blame of another.

Synonyms

• (undisciplined): see Thesaurus:wanton
• (playful, overly happy): frolicsome, playful
• (lewd): lewd, lustful, unchaste
• (capriciously violent): inhumane, callous, merciless
• (luxuriant): extravagant, lavish, luxuriant, prodigal, unrestrained

Derived terms

• wanton kittens make sober cats

Translations

Noun

wanton (plural wantons)

1. A pampered or coddled person.
   • c. 1591-1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

     I would have thee gone — / And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, / That lets it hop a little from her hand, / Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, / And with a silken thread plucks it back again […]

2. An overly playful person; a trifler.

   • 1611, Ben Jonson, Oberon, the Faery Prince

     Peace, my wantons; he will do / More than you can aim unto.

   • 1898: Charles Dickens: A Critical Study by George Gissing

     This quiet remark serves to remind one, among other things that, Dickens was not without his reasons for a spirit of distrust towards religion by law established, as well as towards sundry other forms of religion--the spirit which, especially in his early career, was often misunderstood as hostility to religion in itself, a wanton mocking at sacred things.

3. A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.
4. (archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.
   • 1891: Jerusalem: Its History and Hope by Mrs. Oliphant

     ...paints with tremendous force the adulteries of the two wantons Aholah and Aholibah, Israel and Judah, and their love of strangers...

   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say ‘coming home to-night, dearie’ and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

Translations

Verb

wanton (third-person singular simple present wantons, present participle wantoning, simple past and past participle wantoned)

1. (intransitive) To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Prologue,^[1]

     […] We will fetch thee straight

     Adonis painted by a running brook,

     And Cytherea all in sedges hid,

     Which seem to move and wanton with her breath

     Even as the waving sedges play wi’ th’ wind.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5, lines 294-296,^[2]

     […] Nature here

     Wantond as in her prime, and plaid at will

     Her Virgin Fancies […]

   • c. 1820, Charles Lamb, “Christ’s Hospital, Five and Thirty Years Ago” in Essays of Elia, Paris: Baudry’s European Library, 1835, p. 15,^[3]

     How merrily we would sally into the fields; and strip under the first warmth of the sun; and wanton like young dace in the streams […]

   • 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: Hogarth Press, 1930, Part 2, 9, p. 217,^[4]

     It might well be, said Mrs. McNab, wantoning on with her memories […]

2. (transitive) To waste or squander, especially in pleasure (most often with away).

   The young man wantoned away his inheritance.

   • 1660, Samuel Pepys, diary entry for 28 April, 1660, in Henry B. Wheatley (ed.), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, London: George Bell, 1905, Volume 8, p.290,^[5]

     […] with this money the King shall wanton away his time in pleasures […]

   • 1881, Christina Rossetti, Called to Be Saints, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, “St. Matthias, Apostle,” p. 153,^[6]

     […] Samson, having wantoned away his strength and paying the penalty […]

   • 1929, Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu (translators), “A Song of an Old General” in The Jade Mountain, New York: Vintage, 1972, p. 203,^[7]

     And never would he wanton his cause away with wine.

   • 1948, Digby George Gerahty (as Robert Standish), Elephant Walk, New York: Macmillan, 1949, Chapter 15, p. 214,^[8]

     If either of us felt the respect for George that you imply by your manner, you know perfectly well that we wouldn’t have wantoned away the day as we have.

3. (intransitive) To act wantonly; to be lewd or lascivious.
   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 62,,^[9]

     Be loving and courteous to your fellow Servants, not gigling or idling out your time, or wantoning in the society of men […]

   • […] whole herds or flocks of other women securely, and scarce regarded, traverse the park, the play, the opera, and the assembly; and though, for the most part at least, they are at last devoured, yet for a long time do they wanton in liberty, without disturbance or controul.

Synonyms

• (to act wantonly): See Thesaurus:harlotize

Translations

Related terms

• wantonly
• wantonness
• wantonry

Anagrams

• Antwon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: T, te, tea, ti

Etymology 1

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English te, from Latin te (the name of the letter T).

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.
   • 1985, Stephen King, Paranoid: A Chant

     They have writing samples and examine the back loops of pees and the crosses of tees.

2. Something shaped like the letter T.

   Hyponyms: tee-shirt, tee-beam, tee-frame, tee-iron, tee-headed

3. (clothing) T-shirt.

Derived terms

• teevee

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Etymology 2

From Middle English teen, from Old English t?on (“to pull, tug, draw, drag, entice, allure, induce, lead, bring, rear, educate, attract, arrogate, bring forth, produce, restrain, betake oneself to, go, roam”), from Proto-West Germanic *teuhan (“to pull, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhan? (“to draw, lead, bring, pull, help”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past teed or tow, past participle teed or town)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; lead.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To draw away; go; proceed.

Related terms

• betee
• fortee
• tow
• tug
• wanton

Etymology 3

First attested in the 17th century as teaz, later reanalyzed as a plural.

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
2. (sports) A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
3. (curling) The target area of a curling rink
4. The mark at which players aim in quoits.

Derived terms

• tee ball
• tee off
• tee on
• tee up

Translations

Verb

tee (third-person singular simple present tees, present participle teeing, simple past and past participle teed)

1. (golf) To place a ball on a tee

Synonyms

• tee up

References

Etymology 4

Noun

tee (plural tees)

1. A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.

Anagrams

• EET

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/

Noun

tee (uncountable)

1. tea

Derived terms

• rooibostee
• teekoppie

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tee. Cognate with Finnish tie.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. road, way

Declension

Derived terms

• kiirtee
• maantee
• raudtee
• umbtee

Etymology 2

From German Tee, ultimately from Min Nan ? (tê).

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive teed)

1. tea

Declension

Derived terms

• liivatee

Etymology 3

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Etymology 4

Verb

tee

1. Second-person singular imperative form of tegema.
2. Present connegative form of tegema.

Finnish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swedish te, from Dutch thee, from Min Nan ? (tê) (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf, tea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?/, [?t?e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: tee

Noun

tee

1. (uncountable) tea (dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis)

   Mene kauppaan ja osta teetä.

   Go to the supermarket and buy some tea.

2. (uncountable) tea (drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water)

   Haluaisitko teetä?

   Would you like some tea?

3. (countable) tea (variety of the tea plant)

   Darjeeling on intialainen tee.

   Darjeeling is a tea from India.

4. (uncountable, by extension) tea (any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants)

   yrttitee, kamomillatee, minttutee

   herb tea, camomile tea, mint tea

5. (countable) tea, cup of tea (cup of any one of these drinks)

Usage notes

As the plural forms are quite rarely used and as they, with the exception of nominative, look the same as the plural forms of tie (“road”), it may be advisable to substitute a synonym for the word tee in those cases.

Declension

Synonyms

• (drink made of Camella sinensis): saikka, tsaju, tsaiju (dialectal)
• (variety of the tea plant): teelaatu
• (cup of tea): teekupillinen, kuppi teetä

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin t?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?/, [?t?e??]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: tee

Noun

tee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te??/, [?t?e??(?)]
• Rhymes: -e?
• Syllabification: tee

Verb

tee

1. Present indicative connegative form of tehdä.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of tehdä.
3. Second-person singular imperative connegative form of tehdä.

Anagrams

• eet

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee, from Proto-Finno-Permic *teje. Cognates include Finnish tie and Estonian tee.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa, Hevaha, Soikkola) IPA^(key): /?te?/
  • (Saarve) IPA^(key): /?ti?/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
• (Ylä-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /?ti?/ (phonemic spelling: tii)
• Hyphenation: tee

Noun

tee (genitive teen, partitive teetä)

1. way
2. path

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 66
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 583
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[4], page 171

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *t?a, from Proto-Germanic *taihw?.

Noun

têe f

1. toe

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: teen (plural reanalysed as singular)
• Limburgish: tieën (plural reanalysed as singular)

Further reading

• “tee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: ti

Etymology

From English tee.

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-er, definite plural tee-ene)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophone: ti

Etymology

From English tee.

Noun

tee m (definite singular tee-en, indefinite plural tee-ar, definite plural tee-ane)

1. (golf) tee
2. (golf) peg

References

• “tee” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• ete

Old Irish

Adjective

teë

1. Alternative spelling of té

Mutation

Tetum

Verb

tee

1. to defecate

Tiri

Noun

tee

1. tea

References

• Midori Osumi, Tinrin Grammar

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tee.

Noun

tee (genitive tee, partitive [please provide])

1. way, road

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "tee" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

Võro

Noun

tee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter T.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowing from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Min Nan ? (tê).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te?/

Noun

tee c (no plural)

1. tea

Further reading

• “tee”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011