A teddy is the soft toy bear a child sleeps with. A teddy bear, cuddle a teddy, an old teddy.
It is often the first object a child attaches to and losing one is a household emergency. The toy is named after Theodore Roosevelt, whose refusal to shoot a tethered bear on a hunt in 1902 became a newspaper cartoon and then a toy. Note that teddy also names a one-piece garment, which is unrelated.
1nounteddyThe soft toy bear a child sleeps with.
“The little boy won't go to sleep without his teddy.”
teddy is a toy.
See teddy bear.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA