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teek

/tiːk/

teek is the obsolete form of teak.

Meaning of teak

Noun

teak (usually uncountable, plural teaks)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
  2. (countable, usually) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona.
  3. (usually) A yellowish brown colour, like that of teakwood.

See all 4 meanings of teak

Noun

teek (plural teeks)

  1. A telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.
    • She stood there dumbfounded as the door swung open and banged against the inside wall, narrowly missing her.¶ I did that, she thought. I'm a... teek?2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 140
    Synonyms:
    telekinetic

Verb

teek (third-person singular simple present teeks, present participle teeking, simple past and past participle teeked)

  1. (transitive) To use telekinesis on; to move (something) with the power of one's mind.
    • Tears of pain came to his eyes—and he didn’t know which hurt more, the pain of the soup on his arm or the real shock he had received when he had forced himself to keep from teeking the falling soup halfway across the room.1957 April, Robert Silverberg, “Hidden Talent”, in Worlds of If, page 27
    • With a brief psionic push, Nova teeked them aside and into the rock, firing her rifle at the soft areas just above the creature's rib cage.2011, Nate Kenyon, StarCraft Ghost: Spectres, →ISBN, page 44

Synonyms of teek

Forms of teek

Noun
pluralteeks
Verb
third-person singular presentteeks
present participleteeking
past participleteeked
pastteeked

Origin of teek

From Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) or Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).

Clipping of telekinetic.

Words that rhyme with teek

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Questions about teek

What does teek mean?
Teek means a telekinetic person; a person who has telekinetic abilities.
What is teek the obsolete form of?
Teek is the obsolete form of teak.
What part of speech is teek?
Teek can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce teek?
Teek is pronounced /tiːk/.
What is the plural of teek?
The plural of teek is teeks.

Words near teek in the dictionary

  1. teeing
  2. teeing off
  3. teeing up
  4. teejay
  5. teejays
  6. teek
  7. teeka
  8. teekas
  9. teeked
  10. teeking
  11. teeks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: teek (page history and authors); teak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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