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tenny

tenny is the alternative form of tenné.

tenny is the singular of tennies.

Meaning of tenné

Noun

tenné (uncountable)

  1. A rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown.
    Synonyms:
    tawny

See all 2 meanings of tenné

Meaning of tennies

Noun

tennies pl (normally plural, singular tenny)

  1. (US, informal, plural-normally) Trainers, sneakers (sport shoes).
    • The Moore Brothers is a white-boys blues band almost stereotypical in its composition: an energetic, toothpick-chewing drummer; a scrawny, ascetic bass player who stood shorter than his upright bass; a clean-cut Charlie in polo shirt and tennies fingering some classic blues solos--sans painful...1989 June 30, Ted Cox, “South Bend, IN”, in Chicago Reader

Proper noun capitalized: Tenny

Tenny (plural Tennys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of tenny

Noun
pluraltennies
Proper noun
pluralTennys

Origin of tenny

Probably a variant of Tennenbaum.

Questions about tenny

What does tenny mean?
Tenny means a surname.
What is tenny the alternative form of?
Tenny is the alternative form of tenné.
What part of speech is tenny?
Tenny is a proper noun.

Words near tenny in the dictionary

  1. Tenniswoods
  2. tennisy
  3. tenno
  4. tennos
  5. Tennou
  6. tenny
  7. Tennys
  8. Tennyson
  9. Tennyson Point
  10. Tennysonian
  11. Tennysonianism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tenny (page history and authors); Tenny (page history and authors); tenné (page history and authors); tennies (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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