before a vowel Teut-, combining form irregularly f. TEUTON, TEUTONIC.
1. Combined with other ethnic sbs. or adjs. in the sense. ‘That is a Teuton, or Teutonic and…,’ as Teut-Aryan, Teuto-British, -Celt, -Celtic, etc.
1895. Funk’s Stand. Dict., Teuto-Celtic, of mixed Teutonic and Celtic blood, as the people of northern France.
1897. 19th Cent., May, 795. The early Aryan or better Teutaryan children would seem to have used another word.
1909. Daily Chron., 24 March, 4/6. Sir Rowland Blennerhasset … belonged to that class of international publicists represented by the Baron von Bunsen…, his Teuto-British contributions to our magazines will be much missed.
2. Formative of derivatives, as Teutolatry, the idolizing of Teutonic or German nationality, ideas, etc.; Teutomania, a mania for what is Teutonic or German; hence Teutomaniac, one possessed with Teutomania; Teutophile, -phil sb., a lover or friend of Germany and the Germans; also as adj.; Teutophobia, an intense dread of or aversion to Germany and the Germans; hence Teutophobe, one possessed with Teutophobia; Teutophobism.
1893. Chicago Advance, 17 Aug. Words of warning against the danger of *‘Teutolatry’ [= blind attachment to German biblical criticism].
1836. For. Q. Rev., XVI. Oct., 2. We can assure such of our readers as are, not without reason, apprehensive of being infected with the epidemic disease of *Teutomania—that Wolfgang Menzell is no German.
1848. A. Herbert, in Todd, Irish Nennius, Notes, 42. That crotchet is as old as Verstegan, who says the Picts were … phichtian or fighters…. This was Teutomania.
1899. Q. Rev., April, 440. To detest the Teutomania that worked at the expense of progress and good will.
1900. Dundee Advertiser, 16 April, 16/3. France, which *Teutomaniacs are wont to brand as ‘Celtic.’
1895. C. Lowe, Alex. III., v. 84–5. The hearts of the Germans jumped with joy on their seeing that the *Teutophile successor of the Teutophobe Prince Gortchakoff had not been long in office before he hastened to visit the lord of Varzin (November 1882).
1904. Jrnl. Philos. Psychol. & Sci. Meth., Feb., 58 (C. D. Suppl.). Worthy of more attention than it receives in the current Teutophile philosophy.
1904. Daily Chron., 29 March, 4/6. The late Tsar—who, as a *Teutophobe, would never speak German.
1905. Daily News, 9 Aug., 6. The misunderstandings … are directly attributable to the Teutophobe Press.
1903. Sat. Rev., 14 March, 330/1. A reasoned protest against English *Teutophobia.
1904, Q. Rev., Jan., 320. These articles, apart from their *Teutophobism, are … lucid surveys.
