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☆ teddy bear

a child's stuffed toy made to look like a bear cub

Etymology: after Teddy, nickname for Theodore Roosevelt: first used (1902) after a cartoon by C. K. Berryman, containing a small cub in jocular allusion to his fondness for big-game hunting

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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