What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Tennies vs Tensies - What's the difference?

tennies | tensies |

As nouns the difference between tennies and tensies

is that tennies is trainers, sneakers (sport shoes while tensies is a call in any children's game, such as jacks, where ten actions must be performed.

tennies

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (US) trainers, sneakers (sport shoes)
  • * {{quote-news, year=1989, date=June 30, author=Ted Cox, title=South Bend, IN, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , passage=In 1989 she performed a solo called Fame & Fortune in a pink Afro wig, a tutu, and tennies . }}

    Anagrams

    *

    tensies

    English

    Noun

    (tensies)
  • A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where ten actions must be performed.
  • * 2004 , Anne Tyler, The amateur marriage (page 282)
    • He saw Lindy playing jacks on the sidewalk in Front of the store, snatching up ninesies and tensies in a heedless, all-out swoop that kept the backs of her lingers perpetually scraped raw.