Not a teddy bear

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:42:52AM -0400, Barbara Need wrote:
> From a Freecycle posting for stuffed animals:
>
> "small brown bear (not a teddy bear, a plush bear)"
>
> What is a stuffed bear if not a teddy bear?

A teddy bear is a pretty specific kind of stuffed bear, in my
idiolect at least. A soft, floppy, plush bear would not be a
teddy bear to me.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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