Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An object, such as a teething ring, used for a baby to bite on during teething.

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  • noun A device given to infants to help soothe inflamed gums during teething, often filled with a fluid or gel that can be frozen or refrigerated.

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Examples

  • At group time, you could show the word “cold” with a cold teether from the refrigerator … touch the teether and say, “Cold!” and shiver, then have the children touch it to feel what cold is like.

    Okay here’s the deal, we’re lesson planning for kids aged 6 weeks to 2 years old….? « Literacy Lesson Plans « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2010

  • Canadian Shawn sent this wonderful rattle/teether, that is his new favorite toy.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Charles Statman 2007

  • Canadian Shawn sent this wonderful rattle/teether, that is his new favorite toy.

    charles statman Charles Statman 2007

  • Social commentator Maggie Hamilton called the teether "the ultimate symbol of materialism".

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • "I mean, when you're in Buy Buy Baby," I go on, my voice heating up, "and you're choosing whether to get that squeaky giraffe teether or the mushroom one, with Polly Wolly Doodle playing over the loudspeaker, you can get so hot that you pull your partner into the family bathroom and have a quickie leaning up against the changing table with the smell of diapers all around you!"

    Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011

  • "I mean, when you're in Buy Buy Baby," I go on, my voice heating up, "and you're choosing whether to get that squeaky giraffe teether or the mushroom one, with Polly Wolly Doodle playing over the loudspeaker, you can get so hot that you pull your partner into the family bathroom and have a quickie leaning up against the changing table with the smell of diapers all around you!"

    Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011

  • "I mean, when you're in Buy Buy Baby," I go on, my voice heating up, "and you're choosing whether to get that squeaky giraffe teether or the mushroom one, with Polly Wolly Doodle playing over the loudspeaker, you can get so hot that you pull your partner into the family bathroom and have a quickie leaning up against the changing table with the smell of diapers all around you!"

    Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011

  • "I mean, when you're in Buy Buy Baby," I go on, my voice heating up, "and you're choosing whether to get that squeaky giraffe teether or the mushroom one, with Polly Wolly Doodle playing over the loudspeaker, you can get so hot that you pull your partner into the family bathroom and have a quickie leaning up against the changing table with the smell of diapers all around you!"

    Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg 2011

  • I love the rattle/teether idea, because there's nothing I want to give my baby more than a cheap chew toy slathered in larded, over-sweetened frosting!

    Don't Toy With Me, Man 2010

  • If the teether is punctured by a baby's tiny teeth, the gel could be ingested.

    Nuby teethers recalled because gel filling is contaminated 2009

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