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teal

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English

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Anas crecca, the common teal

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Etymology

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From Middle English tele, probably from an unrecorded Old English *tǣle, cognate with West Frisian tjilling (“teal”), Middle Dutch teling (“teal”) (modern Dutch taling), Middle Low German telink, from Proto-Germanic *tailijaz, of unknown ultimate origin, with no cognates outside of Germanic. Compare feal and heal for similar phonological development.

As the name of a shade of dark greenish-blue like the color patterns on the fowl's head and wings, it is attested from 1923.

The Australian political sense derives from the colour teal being intermediate between green (signifying environmentalism) and blue (signifying the conservative Australian Liberal Party).

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Noun

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teal (countable and uncountable, plural teals)

  1. (countable) Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.
    teal:  
  3. (countable, Australia, politics, chiefly attributive) A teal independent.
    • 2021 September 21, Kurt Wallace, “Navigating the great dividing voter range”, in IPA Today‎[1], Institute of Public Affairs:
      In a bid to defend their inner-city seats, the Liberal Party has moved towards the environmental and progressive left in what can be described as a “teal strategy” that blurs the lines between the Liberals and the Greens.
    • 2022 May 9, “AEC mobilises taskforce to investigate corflute damage”, in Sydney Morning Herald, page 10:
      Concerns of a targeted dirty tricks campaign targeting “teal” independents has prompted the Australian Electoral Commission to bring in its electoral integrity assurance taskforce as pre-polling opens.
    • 2022 September 26, “Teals, Greens list watchdog demands”, in The Canberra Times, page 6:
      Ms Haines is a strong proponent of this, and many of the teal cross benchers support her approach to appointing a whistleblower protection commissioner.
    • 2026 June 3, John Birmingham, “Neoliberalism ate the world. Enter: Pauline Hanson”, in Crikey‎[2]:
      That tiny blue slice is what’s left of the Coalition (both Liberals and Nationals), squeezed between the teals and a barbarian horde of mouthbreathers, grifters and flat-out, flat-earth fucking weirdos gathered under the bright-orange war banner of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation — or, as they would officially henceforth be known, His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.

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Adjective

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teal (comparative more teal, superlative most teal)

  1. Having a bluish-green colour.

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Colo(u)rs in English (layout · text)
             red          orange              yellow              green              blue (incl.      indigo)              purple / violet
                 magenta, pink          brown              cyan, teal, turquoise      white              gray/grey      black

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