Tennises vs Tennies - What's the difference?
tennises | tennies |
(tennis)
(label) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
(label) A match in this sport.
* 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)
(obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
* (Shakespeare)
* (1800-1859)
(dated) To play tennis.
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
(US) trainers, sneakers (sport shoes)
* {{quote-news, year=1989, date=June 30, author=Ted Cox, title=South Bend, IN, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=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 facial expressions--and the leader, an Andy Renko sort singing and occasionally diddling on harp and keeping things fresh with a remarkable collection of esoteric blues standards. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1995, date=September 1, author=Leah Eskin, title=Fashion Statements: the young and the cautious, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Baby Duffy's tennies , jeans, and polo shirt--each borrowed from the grown-up vocabulary for down time--are scaled small, colored bright, and retrofitted with patches at elbow and knee. }}
* {{quote-news, year=2003, date=April 11, author=Laura Molzahn, title=Jan Erkert, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=In 1989 she performed a solo called Fame & Fortune in a pink Afro wig, a tutu, and tennies . }}
As a verb tennises
is third-person singular of tennis.As a noun tennies is
trainers, sneakers (sport shoes.tennises
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Verb
(head)tennis
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(en-noun)George Goodchild
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis , were familiar to all London.
Derived terms
* football tennis * lawn tennis * real tennis * tennis ball * tennis court * tennis player * tennis racket * tennis racquetSee also
* table tennis or ping pongVerb
- (Spenser)
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* 1000 English basic words ----tennies
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