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ˈtea-shop
[f. tea n. + shop n.]
a. A shop where tea (sense 1) is sold.
b. A café where tea (sense 2 or 4) is served.
a1745Swift (J.), The mistress of the tea shop. 1856A. M. Lang Diary (Meean Meer, Punjab) 17 Sept. (MS.), Went to Tea Shop and billiards..at Artillery Mess. 1860J. R. Edkins Chinese Scenes (1863) 153 Drinking tea with about forty nondescript Chinamen... I shall try to give you a little picture of the tea-shop. 1915W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lvi. 288 He thought of going to lunch at the tea-shop. 1933Dylan Thomas Let. Oct. (1966) 43 Gower is a very beautiful peninsula,..and so far the Tea-Shop philistines have not spoilt the more beautiful of its bays. 1962L. Davidson Rose of Tibet ii. 48 There were a number of small teashops in the town [sc. Kalimpong]; ramshackle sheds with trestle tables containing tea urns and trays of sweetmeats.
c. In the affected spelling tea-shoppe [cf. shoppe] applied (freq. disparagingly) to a tea-shop with sham antique decoration.
Second element sometimes pronounced |ˈʃɒpiː|.
1925Amer. Speech I. 153/1 These names are not intended to be ‘quaint’ like ‘Betty Anne’ of Massachusetts and her eternal ‘Tea Shoppe’. 1933, etc. [see shoppe]. 1959Times 12 May 3/7 As artificial as a Tudor Tea Shoppe. 1973Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous v. 50 She had been planning a roll and butter and a cup of coffee at some wayside tea shoppe.
Hence ˈtea-shoppy a., characteristic of or resembling a tea-shop (sense b or c).
1931Time & Tide 22 Aug. 992 There are other debatable points, too, in this rather tea-shoppy story. 1959Good Food Guide 52 Portions are ample and not tea-shoppy. 1975Times 27 Dec. 7/3 A restaurant..in a tea-shoppy basement. |