terry

Meaning

1. A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.
2. Any makeshift cloth nappy folded from a large piece of absorbent fabric and held in place by a nappy pin or nappy fastener; a flat nappy.
3. A terrorist
4. A surname originating as a patronymic from the medieval Norman given name Thierry, a cognate of the English Derek.
5. A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname, or a diminutive of Terence or of any of its alternative forms.
6. A male given name from Latin derived from the Latin for the third ("tertius") given to a third child or a child whose name has the suffix III.
7. A female given name, diminutive of Teresa or any of its alternative forms.
8. A number of places in the United States:
9. An unincorporated community in Leopold Township, Perry County, Indiana.
10. A township in Finney County, Kansas.
11. An unincorporated community in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
12. A town in Hinds County, Mississippi.
13. An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri.
14. A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
15. A small town, the county seat of Prairie County, Montana.

Etymology / origin

Of uncertain origin, possibly French tiré (“drawn out”), past participle of tirer (“to draw out”).

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