Etymology

teenful

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Today it means: Full of grief; harmful; afflicted; troublesome; vexatious Full definition →

Middle English teneful ← Old English tēonful
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  1. Old English · inherited fromtēonful
  2. Middle English · inherited fromteneful
  3. English todayteenful

From Middle English teneful, from Old English tēonful, tēonfull (“grievous; vexatious; troublesome; woeful”), equivalent to teen + -ful.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.