Meanings
teenty1
comparative teentier · superlative teentiest
teenty2
- nonstandardOne hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
Base 120 is the largest of the historically attested bases […] There are references to a long or twelftywise count vs a short or teenty-wise count in all of the early Germanic writings.
Krieger, Wendy (15 September 2008 (last accessed)), “Twelfty for Decimal-Users”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)Synonyms: short hundred
Synonyms & antonyms
numeralOne hundred (100), especially a short hundred when considering long hundreds.
Origin
* ten + -ty Perhaps from Old English hundtēontiġ (compare hundseofontiġ, hundeahtatiġ, hundniġontiġ, hundendleftiġ, and hundtwelftiġ for modern seventy, eighty, ninety, and nonstandard eleventy, twelfty, reflecting the old Germanic hybrid base-ten and base-twelve numbering system); perhaps reconstructed based on eleventy etc. and -teen.
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teenty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/teenty
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