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Keener vs Teener - What's the difference?

keener | teener |

As nouns the difference between keener and teener

is that keener is (dated) one who keens at a funeral while teener is a teenager.

As an adjective keener

is (keen).

keener

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (keen)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) One who keens at a funeral.
  • (informal, UK, Canada) Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser.

    • teener

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teenager.
  • *1952, , Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology , American Psychological Association (1952), p. 159,
  • *:"[…] adult periods and emphasizes the importance of the total teener in a social milieu."
  • *a''1968,''' , ''When I Was a '''Teener .
  • *1975, Fely J. Cruz, I Married a Newspaperman: A Collection of Articles, Verses and Short Stories , T. F. Valencia (1975), p. 1923,
  • *:"To a Teener Celebrating Her Last Teen Year"
  • *2000, George Harmon Smith, Education is Broken, But I Will Help You Fix It!: Hundreds of Tips to Help Your Child Through the Maze , Xlibris Corporation (2000), p. 42,
  • *:"Also, warn your teener that in this age of undisciplined classrooms, they are unlikely to have a teacher who demands that the class obey—(the major reason why European and Japanese school children score so much higher on ANY test than American kids)."
  • A sixteenth of an ounce of a drug.

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