tean.1
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/ 1.
a. The leaves of the tea-plant (see 3), usually in a dried and prepared state for making the drink (see 2); first imported into Europe in the 17th century, and now extensively used in various parts of the world.According to Meyer, Konversations-Lexikon, the first mention of it in Europe is due to the Portuguese in 1559 (under the name cha); chia is mentioned in Maffei's Historia Indica in 1588. Under the name te, thee, it was imported by the Dutch from Bantam (where brought by Chinese merchants from Amoy) c1610–55; first known in Paris 1635, in Russia (by way of Tartary) 1638, in England about 1650.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > tea-leaves
tea1655
tea-leaf1756
out-turn1878
matcha1881
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun] > leaf or leaves
tea1655
leaf?1660
Paraguay tea1737
flashes1880
1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xxvi. 46/1 The aforesaid warme water is made with the powder of a certaine hearbe called Chaa.]
1655 tr. A. Semedo Hist. China i. iii. 19 Chá is a leafe of a tree, about the bignesse of Mirtle; [margin] its called also Tay.
?1660 T. Garway Exact Descr. Leaf Tea (single sheet) These are to give notice that the said Thomas Garway hath Tea to sell from sixteen to fifty shillings the pound.
1664 T. Garway (title) An exact description of the growth, quality, and vertues of the leaf tee, alias tay.
1667 London Gaz. No. 206/3 The most considerable Wares being Cinamon, Ebony, Thea, and Camphire.
1667–8 E. Ind. Co.'s Let. 24 Jan. in Letter Bks. IV. 137 Wee desire you to procure and send us by these ships 100lb. waight of the best Tey that you can gett.
1676 J. Beal in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 586 The tops of red Sage in blossom,..dried in the shade,..did excel the famous Thea, the Chinois themselves being Judges.
1680 London Gaz. No. 1573/4 A small parcel of most excellent tea..to be sold,..the lowest price is 30s. a pound.
1728 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 172 The man at the Poultry has tea of all prices,—Bohea from thirteen to twenty shillings, and green from twelve to thirty.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 375 Tea..first imported into Europe by the Dutch East-India Company, in the..seventeenth century.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 858 Tea..is composed of the dried leaves of the thea bohea and thea viridis.
b. With qualifying words, denoting various kinds, chiefly distinguished by the mode of preparation (also applied to the beverages made from these: see 2.The main classes are black and green tea: see black tea n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a) and green tea n. at green adj. and n.1 Compounds 1d(a). Black teas include bohea adj. and n., congou n., oolong n., pekoe n., souchong n. Green teas include gunpowder n. (or pearl n.1 and adj.), hyson n., etc. See also brick tea n., †cowslip tea (cowslip n. Compounds 2).
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1704 London Gaz. No. 4059/4 Green and Bohee Tea.
1713 J. Addison Spectator No. 328 ed. 2 v. Green, Imperial, Peco, and Bohea-Tea.
1785 Rolliad 53 What tongue can tell the various kinds of Tea? Of Blacks and Greens, of Hyson and Bohea; With Singlo, Congou, Pekoe and Souchong, Couslip the fragrant, Gun-powder the Strong.
1795 A. Anderson Narr. Brit. Embassy China 186 The Imperial and gunpowder teas:..the former..collected from the first, and the other from the successive blossoms of that plant.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 379 There are three kinds of green tea..one called hyson, hayssuen, is composed of leaves..carefully picked.
1888 J. Paton Tea in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 97/2 Black and green tea are made indifferently from the leaves of the same plant.
c. Phrases. given away with a pound of tea: see given away with a pound of tea at give v. Phrasal verbs 1; not for all the tea in China (colloquial, originally Australian): not at any price.
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the mind > language > statement > negation > [adverb] > no > certainly not
for nothinglOE
not (to do something) for the worlda1375
for foul or fairc1405
not for a moment1785
not on your life1791
not for Joe (Joseph)1844
no siree1845
not much1871
a thousand times, no1896
not on your tintype1900
not for all the tea in China1937
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 148/1 China!, not for all the tea in, certainly not!; on no account: Australian coll.: from the 1890's.
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger ii. 19 I'm not going to stand in my girl's light for all the tea in China.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain vi. 137 She wouldn't get into a sidecar or on a pillion for all the tea in China.
1978 Radio Times 11 Mar. 25/5 I wouldn't change Newcastle for all the tea in China... It's a lovely place to live in.
2.
a. A drink made by infusing these leaves in hot water, having a somewhat bitter and aromatic flavour, and acting as a moderate stimulant; largely used as a beverage.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun]
chia1601
cha1616
tea1658
tsia1662
scandal-potion1786
scandal-broth1795
tea-water1818
Seric herb1840
split pea1857
scandal-water1873
Rosie Lee1901
chai1919
char1919
Rosie1929
1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 156 Water mixt with a certaine precious powder which they [sc. the Japanese] vse, they account a daintie beuerage: they call it Chia.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes iv. xviii. 437 They offer him ‘Chia’ to drinke.
a1631 J. Bontius Hist. Naturalis et Medicæ Indiæ Orientalis (1658) i. vi. 12 Dur. Memineras de Chinensium Thee vocato Potu, quid tu de eo sentis? Bont. Herbula unde hoc The conficitur [etc.].]
1658 Mercurius Politicus 23–30 Sept. 887 (advt.) That excellent..drink called by the Chineans Tcha, by other Nations Tay alias Tee.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 25 Sept. (1970) I. 253 I..did send for a Cupp of Tee (a China drink) of which I never had drank before.
1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant i. i. 8 I sent for three Dishes of Tea.
1679 J. Locke in Ld. King Life Locke (1829) 135 Foreign drinks to be found in England are..coffé, thé and chocolate at coffee houses.
1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer i. i. 2 They are at that end of the Gallery; retired to their Tea, and scandal..after Dinner.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 10. ¶2 All well-regulated Families, that set apart an Hour in every Morning for Tea and Bread and Butter.
1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 359 Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey, Dost sometimes Counsel take—and sometimes Tea.
c1720 M. Prior To Young Gent. in Love 58 He thank'd her on his bended knee; Then drank a quart of milk and tea.
1762 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 187/2 No crowding sycophants from day to day, Came to admire the babe—but more the tea.
1834 J. D. Lang State New S. Wales in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 414/1 In the bush, or uncultivated country in New South Wales, tea is the universal beverage.
1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? i. vi Your tea will get quite cold.
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b. cup of tea (colloquial phrase): see cup n. Phrases 2.
c. A cupful of tea.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun] > a cup of
tea1922
cuppa1925
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 696 We both ordered 2 teas and plain bread and butter.
1976 B. Gibson Birmingham Bombs xii. 104 Three teas, two coffees, and a large steak and kidney pie.
d. one's tea: what interests or suits one. rare. Cf. cup n. Phrases 2 (ii).
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] > that which is suitable or appropriate > for a person
one's tea1934
1934 E. Waugh Handful of Dust iii. 135 Are you certain Jenny will be Tony's tea?
e. tea and sympathy: consolation offered to a distressed person. Also attributive.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > [noun] > consolation or relief
lightingOE
leathc1175
comfort?c1225
solacec1290
solacec1290
lithec1300
comfortingc1320
allegeancec1325
swaging1340
froa1350
releasec1350
consolationc1374
legeancec1390
reliefa1393
comfortationa1400
leathinga1400
swagea1400
allegementa1425
alleviation?a1425
recreation?a1425
refrigery?a1425
lighteningc1425
recomfortc1425
mitigation?1435
recomforting1487
recreancea1500
allevation1502
easement1533
solacy1534
ease1542
cheer1549
assuagement1561
refreshing1561
easing1580
recomfortation1585
recomforture1595
assuage1596
allevement1599
mitification1607
allayment1609
solagement1609
levation1656
solacement1721
solation1757
soulagement1777
consolement1797
de-tension1949
de-tensioning1952
tea and sympathy1953
1953 R. Anderson (title of play) Tea and sympathy.
1958 Listener 2 Oct. 537/1 We leave Mrs. Newby enjoying tea and sympathy.
1970 P. Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon i. 7 He was a tea-and-sympathy man, full of tactful advice.
1978 ‘J. Higgins’ Day of Judgm. xii. 168 ‘There may be something I could do.’ ‘Tea and sympathy... No more than that.’
3. The plant from which tea is obtained, a shrub of the genus Thea (now often included in Camellia), N.O. Ternstrœmiaceæ, with white flowers, and oval pointed slightly toothed evergreen leaves; cultivated from ancient times in China, Japan, India, and adjacent countries. (Now chiefly in combination, as tea-leaf, -plant, etc.)The plants yielding the tea of commerce are comprised in the species T. chinensis or C. theifera (including two varieties T. Bohea and T. viridis, sometimes reckoned as different species), of China and Japan, and T. (or C.) assamica, of Assam and India; the latter is found wild in Upper Assam, and is by some supposed to be the original type.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun]
tea1663
tea-shrub1704
tea-plant1728
tea tree1760
tea-bush1908
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 104 That Herb, which the French and we call Thé, or Té, which is much magnified here.
1685 J. Chamberlayne tr. P. S. Dufour Manner of making Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate 38 The most excellent leaves of Cha, or Tea, are found in the provinces of Kiangnon.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 193 Because warm Water is unpalatable.., they [the Chinese] bethought themselves of putting some Leaves of a Tree into it, to give it a better Taste. Those of Tea seemed to be the best.
4.
a. A meal or social entertainment at which tea is served; esp. an ordinary afternoon or evening meal, at which the usual beverage is tea (but sometimes cocoa, chocolate, coffee, or other substitute). Now usually a light meal in the late afternoon, but locally in the U.K. (esp. northern), and in Australia and New Zealand, a cooked evening meal; in Jamaica, the first meal of the day. high tea, meat tea: see high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4, meat n. Compounds 2 tea and turn-out: see turn-out n. 7b.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > tea
tea1738
high tea1787
tea and turn out1806
supper1818
tousy tea1835
meat tea1842
thé complet1856
low tea1883
thick tea1886
tea-supper1892
cream tea1964
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party
school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party
tea1738
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
cookie shine1830
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
muffin-fight1876
coffee-party1886
kaffeeklatsch1888
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
klatsch1953
coffee morning1962
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. ii Whether they meet..at Meals, Tea, or Visits.
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxvi. 213 I was relieved by a summons to tea.
1789 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IV. 453 At breakfast and at tea, on these two days, I met all the Society.
1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger VI. ii. iii. 60 She asked Rebecca if she could come to tea at their house.
1882 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life II. 187 My first introduction to ‘afternoon tea’ took place during this visit to Belvoir [in 1842]. I do not believe that the now universally-honoured institution of ‘five o'clock tea’ dates further back than this.
1897 B. Harraden Hilda Strafford iii A rattling good tea—hot rolls, fried potatoes, and quail.
1901 W. C. Russell Ship's Adventure iv Mrs. Brierly spread a liberal tea upon the table.
1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 80 He calls his lunch his dinner, and has his tea at half-past six. Havnt you, dear?
?a1927 F. S. Anthony Follow Call (1936) 17 Peter came home drunk once every week, and made his poor wife milk the herd of twenty-four cows by herself; and then about 8 p.m. he'd arise from the sofa and go to market because the poor woman hadn't cooked a hot tea for him.
1938 N. Marsh Artists in Crime vi. 81 ‘We finished tea at half-past eight, about.’ ‘The gentleman is talking of the evening meal. They dine at noon in the Antipodes, I understand.’
1952 in F. G. Cassidy & R. B. LePage Dict. Jamaican Eng. (1967) 439/1 Tea—same as chaklata... Tea at 6:30 a.m.
1957 N.Z. Listener 22 Nov. 4/3 More than one New Zealander has been invited to ‘tea’ in England and arrived hours too late, the meal finished and the guests gone.
1968 Southerly 28 5 ‘What have you got for tea?’ he asked... ‘It's a coupla nice little bits of fillet Mr. Ballard let me have.’
b. to take tea with (slang): to have dealings with, associate with; esp. to deal with in a hostile manner, engage with, encounter.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225
mella1300
fellowshipa1382
companya1400
accompany1461
to keep company (with)1502
encompanya1513
to keep (a person) company1517
to take repast1517
assist1553
to take up with1570
rempare1581
to go along with1588
amate1590
bear1590
to fall in1593
consort1598
second1600
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
comitate1632
associate1644
enhaunt1658
join1713
assort1823
sit1828
companionize1870
to take tea with1888
to knock about with1915
tote1977
fere-
society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > carry on (a contest, fight, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > engage in contention with
tangle1535
to make with ——1548
bucklea1605
to take on1866
to take tea with1888
to have on1939
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxxvii ‘Maybe we'll take tay with the rest of 'em now’. They didn't know the man they were after, or they'd have just as soon have gone to ‘take tea’, as they called it, with a tiger.
1896 R. Kipling Lost Legion in Seven Seas 97 Take tea with the giddy Masai.
1905 Daily Chron. 2 June 3/3 In polite circles genealogies are tabooed, the slightest trace of hybridity barring ‘taking tea’, as the local phrase has it.
c. to go (out) for one's tea (see quots.). Irish English (northern) slang.
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1978 F. Burton Politics of Legitimacy iii. 78 A Provo would scoff at the Officials' merely elocutionary skills while they were ‘going out for their tea’ (that is, going on military operations which might result in their death).
1979 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 1 Mar. 5/1 ‘Going for your tea’ in Belfast can be a painful experience—being dragged out by a terrorist punishment squad to get a bullet in the legs.
5. Used as a general name for infusions made in the same way as tea (sense 2), usually from the leaves, blossoms, or other parts of plants; mostly used medicinally, sometimes as ordinary drinks.Commonly with defining words, as alehoof, balm, beef, camomile, camphor, coffee, cowslip, hartshorn, laurel, lemon, lemon-grass, poppy, rosemary, sage, saloop, sassafras, senna, tilleul, valerian, willow tea: see these words. So humorously limestone tea (quot. 1723).
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the world > food and drink > drink > infused leaves, flowers, or fruit > [noun]
tea1666
citronelle1861
steeping1898
kombucha1902
leaf tea1932
1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 250 They dry..Sage-leaves..and prepare them like The, and..get for one pound of it, four times as much The.
1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 27 Some of them [flowers] are Pickl'd, and divers of them make also very pleasant and wholsome Theas, as do likewise the Wild Time, Bugloss, Mint, &c.
1723 W. Stukeley Let. 22 July in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1887) III. 249 I am just drinking your health in a swinger of limestone thea [Bath water].
1724 I. Watts Logick i. iv. §4 Tea, which was the proper name of one sort of Indian leaf, is now-a-days become a common name for many infusions of herbs, or plants, in water: as sage-tea, alehoof-tea, limon-tea, etc.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. l. 222 He treated me with Tartarian Tea, which I took to be Beans boyled in Milk, with some salt.
1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 314 Of some of these Ingredients [Marsh Mallow, &c.] so dried, make Tea, as you do common Tea, with boiling hot Water.
1778 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 8) 135 Any syrup, jelly of currants, barley-water, gruel, or any sort of tea.
1783 S. Chapman in Med. Communications 1 305 He was advised to leave off drinking foreign tea, and to drink valerian, or rosemary, tea.
1795 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. (ed. 2) I. 128 Of the leaves of the barbonia cordata the country people made tea.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. iv. 152 The men had made a fire in the galley to make tea of an acid herb, called ‘erva cidreira’.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1127 Lemon-grass Tea, an infusion of the leaves of Andropogon Schœnanthus, substituted for tea in many of the interior districts of India.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 112 Tea..of heaven, a Japanese name for the leaves of Hydrangea Thunbergii.
1881 Trans. Obstetr. Soc. 22 32 The word ‘tea’ is by the natives of this island [Jamaica] applied to any infusion made from leaves of plants either fresh or dry. ‘Cotton leaf tea’ is made from the green leaves of one of the shrubs that produces the cotton of commerce.
1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita II. xvi. 41 It is given poppy tea, and that sends it to sleep.
6. With defining words, applied to various plants whose leaves, flowers, etc. are used in the same way as tea, either for beverages, or medicinally (also to the leaves, etc. themselves, or the drink infused from them). (See also tea-plant n., tea tree n.) Abyssinian tea n. = Arabian tea n. (a). Algerian tea n. species of Paronychia, from whose flowers a medicinal tea is made. Appalachian tea n. (a) Viburnum cassinoides; (b) Ilex cassine, I. vomitoria, or Prinos glaber. Arabian tea n. (a) Catha edulis, whose leaves furnish a stimulating beverage used in Arabia; (b) = Algerian tea n. Australian tea n. (a) ‘several species of Leptospermum and Melaleuca’ ( Treasury Bot. 1866): see tea tree n. 2; (b) = Botany Bay tea n. (Morris Austral Eng. 1898). Barbary tea n. the box-thorn or Duke of Argyll's tea tree, Lycium barbarum. Bencoolen tea n. Glaphyria nitida ( Leptospermum nitidum), of the Malayan islands. Blue Mountain tea n. or golden rod tea n. Solidago odora of North America, from whose leaves and flowers a beverage is made. Botany Bay tea n. an Australian species of sarsaparilla, Smilax glycyphylla, also called sweet tea. Bourbon tea n. = faham tea n. Brazil tea n. (also Brazilian tea) Stachytarpha jamaicensis. bush tea n. Cyclopia genistoides of South Africa. Canary tea n. Sida canariensis ( S. rhombifolia). Carolina tea n. Ilex vomitoria: = Appalachian tea n. (b).† Ceylon tea n. Obsolete Elæodendron glaucum: see tea tree n. 3 (obsolete). faham tea n. a tropical orchid, Angræcum fragrans.† false tea n. Obsolete = Paraguay tea n. Hottentot's tea n. Helichrysum serpyllifolium (see Hottentot n. and adj. Compounds). Jesuits' tea n. (a) Psoralea glandulosa (see Jesuit n. Compounds 3; (b) = Paraguay tea n. (Cent. Dict.). Kaffir tea Helichrysum nudifolium (see Kaffir n. and adj. Compounds 2a). Labrador tea n. Ledum latifolium and L. palustre (see Labrador n.). Malay tea n. (a) = Bencoolen tea n.; (b) Eugenia variabilis. marsh tea n. Ledum palustre (Cent. Dict.). Mexican tea n. (a) Ambrina (Chenopodium) ambrosioides; (b) = Jesuits' tea n. (a): see Mexican n. and adj. Compounds 1. mountain tea n. = tea-berry n.: see mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2d. New Jersey tea n. Ceanothus americanus (see quot. 18581). New Zealand tea n. Leptospermum scoparium: see tea tree n. 2. Oswego tea n. see Oswego n. 1. Paraguay tea n. Ilex paraguayensis, extensively used in South America as a substitute for tea: see Paraguay n. 2. St. Bartholomew's tea n. = Paraguay tea n. (Cent. Dict.). St. Helena tea n. Beatsonia (Frankenia) portulacifolia. soldiers' tea n. = matico n. South Sea tea n. = Paraguay tea n.; also sometimes used as a name for Carolina tea. Suriname tea n. ‘various species of Lantana’ (Miller Plant-n.). sweet tea n. = Botany Bay tea n. teamster's tea n. a North American plant, Ephedra antisyphilitica, used as a remedy for venereal affections. Theezan tea n. Sageretia theezans, a thorny rhamnaceous shrub of South China, whose leaves are said to be used for tea by the poorer classes. West Indian tea n. Capraria biflora, also called goat-weed. wild tea n. a North American leguminous shrub, Amorpha canescens, also called lead-plant. See also Canada tea n. at Canada n.1 13.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > tea substitutes
Indian tea1709
Appalachian tea1728
Arabian tea1728
Carolina tea1728
golden rod tea1728
Paraguay1728
South Sea tea1728
sweet tea1728
Oswego tea1752
false tea1760
New Jersey tea1760
Labrador tea1767
mountain tea1785
manuka1832
Abyssinian tea1866
Brazil tea1866
Hudson's Bay tea1948
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > myrtles > [noun]
myrt?a1200
myrt-treea1382
mirtusc1384
myrtine?a1450
myrtle tree1548
myrtle1562
nerte1585
Australian tea1728
Bencoolen tea1728
New Zealand tea1728
Scotch gale1795
Callistemon1814
manuka1832
myrtal1846
mangrove-myrtle1847
swamp tea tree1862
lid-flower1866
Barringtonia1871
tea-broom1872
kanuka1906
myrtle-of-the-river1919
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > box-thorn bush or berry
boxthorn1578
lycium1597
Barbary tea1728
matrimony1818
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > sweetweed
West Indian tea1728
goatweed1756
sweetweed1760
sweet broom1884
liquorice weed1889
sweet broom-weed1890
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American
wild tea1728
bastard indigo1730
mountain heath1731
groundsel-tree1736
amorpha1751
buttonbush1754
moosewood1778
pipestem wood1791
modesty1809
sand myrtle1814
wicopy1823
lead-plant1833
false indigo1841
sleek-leaf1845
arrow weed1848
rabbit bush1852
ribbonwood1860
rabbit brush1877
sea myrtle1883
pencil tree1884
tar-bush1884
ocean spray1906
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun] > types of
herb of Paraguay1672
Indian tea1709
Algerian tea1728
Appalachian tea1728
Arabian tea1728
Canary tea1728
golden rod tea1728
Malay tea1728
Paraguay1728
South Sea tea1728
monarda1752
Oswego tea1752
Paraguay tea1760
Labrador tea1767
maté1768
marsh rosemary1777
blue mountain tea1785
alstonia1806
Ceylon tea1814
Canada tea1817
yerba-maté1818
honey bush1840
Wild Bergamot1843
Hottentot tea1850
kaffir tea1850
khat1858
Brazil tea1866
Mexican tea1866
St. Helena tea1875
rooibos1915
redbush1946
Hudson's Bay tea1948
bergamot1958
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > sarsaparilla and other medicinal smilax plants
arbor vine1562
sarsaparilla1577
smilax1601
Carolina China-root1673
Botany Bay tea1728
sweet tea1728
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rabbit root1834
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sneezeweed1877
lingzhi1904
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fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
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faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
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Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
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Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
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Algerian tea1728
Australian tea1728
strongback1739
silphium1753
belladonna1788
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teamster's tea1728
iodipin1899
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > yapon
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Carolina tea1728
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for scurvy > plant-derived > plant-derived drinks
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scurvy-ale1618
scurvy-grass ale1661
scurvy-grass1664
lime juice1704
Botany Bay tea1728
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American > ceanothus or red-root
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Jersey tea1759
New Jersey tea1759
New Jersey tea1760
spirit weed1864
myrtle1880
ceanothus1882
buck's-eye1883
red-heart1911
the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > types of dry tea > other types
bing1702
bohea1702
brush-tea1813
Ceylon tea1814
padre1836
oolong1845
Formosa tea1889
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > specific decoction or infusion
sabras?c1225
tisanea1398
tamarisk1597
wort1694
sage tea?1706
poppy tea1709
yapon tea1723
herb-tea1744
spring juices1751
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camomile-tea1753
uva ursi1753
nettle tea1758
bush tea1768
quassia1778
majo bitters1866
Mexican tea1866
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > for stopping bleeding > plant-derived
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agaric1756
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amadou1876
soldiers' tea1895
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > matico
soldiers' tea1895
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Paraguay Better known, of late, among us, under the Denomination of South-Sea Tea.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Osweego Thea, Monarda [didyma].
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 329 False Tea, Ilex.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 329 New Jersey Tea, Ceanothus.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 329 Paraguay Tea, Ilex.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 329 South-sea Tea, Ilex.
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 xxxviii. 117 The South-Sea tea, which is thought to be the same plant as the Paraguay tea; but whether it is the same as the tea brought from China, is yet undetermined.
1814 W. Roxburgh Hortus Bengalensis 18 Elæodendrum glaucum, Ceylon Tea.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §508. 336 [The leaves] of Ilex Paraguayensis, called Maté or Paraguay Tea, resemble Tea in property.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom lxvi. 237 The leaves of Ceanothus americanus were used during the revolutionary war as a substitute for tea, and hence it is called New Jersey Tea.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom cxv. 482 The leaves [of Gaultheria procumbens]..make an excellent substitute for tea,..and the plant is..called Tea-berry and Mountain Tea.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom cxix. 489 Ilex vomitoria has been erroneously called South Sea Tea, from the supposition that it was the same plant as I. paraguensis.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 49 Ambrina ambrosioides, or Mexican Tea,..long naturalised in the south of Europe, is used medicinally.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 369 The leaflets of [Cyclopia genistoides] are used at the Cape in infusion or decoction for promoting expectoration... It is called Bush Tea.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1005 S[ageretia] theezans, the Tia of the Chinese, is a thorny shrub, with..finely-toothed egg-shaped leaves..somewhat resembling those of the tea-shrub.]
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1090 [The] leaves [of Stachytarpha jamaicensis] are sometimes used to adulterate tea, and in Austria they are sold under the name of Brazilian tea.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1127 Tea, Abyssinian,..Appalachian [etc.],..Arabian,..Australian [etc.].
1895 Dunglison's Dict. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) Matico, Soldiers' tea or herb, tonic, stimulant, diuretic, and astringent; used both internally and externally.
7. slang. † b. Urine (obsolete).
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a. Spirituous or intoxicating liquor.
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pee1957
wee1968
1693 Remonstr. Batchelors in Harl. Misc. (Park) IV. 505 Since their sex has been so familiar with brandy (blasphemed by the name of cold tea).
1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 32 The thoughtless Wits..Who 'gainst the Centry's Box discharge their Tea.
1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 370 Tea or coffee were always at our command, Scotch tea also (i.e. whisky).
1902 Times 29 Oct. 5/6 It was all owing to the ‘tea’... He understood that this was a slang term for drink.
c. Marijuana; spec. marijuana brewed in hot water to make a drink. Originally U.S.
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tea1935
pot liquor1967
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 119/2 Tea, mariahuana; hashish.
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xi. 83 ‘I knew a guy once who smoked ju-jus,’ she said. ‘Three high balls and three sticks of tea and it took a pipe wrench to get him off the chandelier.’
1950 San Francisco Chron. 22 Feb. 20/1 A couple of years ago she started blowing tea.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. xiii. 88 A couple of Negro characters whispered in my ear about tea... The connection came in and motioned me to the cellar toilet.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iv. 1/1 Marijuana..when brewed with hot water,..is called ‘tea’.
1979 High Times Mar. 18/2 Consider the number of words that served for a time and then passed into embarrassed silence. ‘Muggles’ and ‘tea’—words that sound right only in Raymond Chandler novels now.
8. Florists' abbreviation of tea rose n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > rose and allied flowers > rose > types of rose flower or bush
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damask rose?a1547
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winter rose1577
Austrian brier1590
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damasine-rose1607
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blush-rose1629
maiden's blush1648
monthly rose tree1664
Provinsa1678
York and Lancaster rose1688
cinnamon rose1699
muscat rose1707
cabbage rose1727
China-rose1731
old-fashioned rose1773
moss rose1777
swamp rose1785
alba1797
Cherokee rose1804
Macartney rose1811
shepherd's rose1818
multiflora1820
prairie rose1822
Boursault1826
Banksian rose1827
maiden rose1827
moss1829
Noisette1829
seven sisters rose1830
Dundee rambler1834
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Chickasaw rose1835
Bourbon1836
climbing rose1836
green rose1837
hybrid China1837
Jaune Desprez1837
Lamarque1837
perpetual1837
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China1844
Manetti1846
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Persian Yellow1848
pole rose1848
monthly1849
tea rose1850
quarter sessions rose1851
Gloire de Dijon1854
Jacqueminot1857
Maréchal Niel1864
primrose1864
jack1867
La France1868
tea1869
Ramanas rose1876
Japanese rose1883
polyantha1883
old rose1885
American Beauty1887
hybrid tea1890
Japan rose1895
roselet1896
floribunda1898
Zéphirine Drouhin1901
Penzance briar1902
Dorothy Perkins1903
sweetheart1905
wichuraiana1907
mermaid1918
species rose1930
sweetheart rose1936
peace1944
shrub rose1948
1869 S. R. Hole Bk. Roses vi. 77 The autumn leaves.., decayed to mould, are very advantageous to the Teas, Noisettes, and Bourbons.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 July 3/2 At Cheshunt about 200,000 standard rose seedlings and 40,000 ‘teas’ are sown every year.
1901 E. von Arnim Elizabeth & her German Garden (new ed.) 17 I wish now I had put teas there.
1901 E. von Arnim Elizabeth & her German Garden (new ed.) 18 I made my teas face a northern winter.
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C1. attributive.
a. Of, pertaining or relating to, dealing or connected with tea as a commodity.
tea act n.
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1746 J. Lockman To 1st Promoter Cambrick & Tea-Bills 13 (note) Since the Tea-Act pass'd last session, the revenue is increased 85,000l. per annum.
tea bill n.
tea-broker n.
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1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 154/2 A tea-broker, charged with forging a warrant for the delivery of three chests of tea.
tea-dealer n.
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1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 i. 111/1 Four tea dealers were tried before the commissioners of excise.
1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xxii. 216 The premises of one of the oldest firms in London—those of the Messrs. Twining, tea-dealers and bankers.
tea-duty n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 291/1 The tariff of 1842 has made no alteration in the tea-duty.
tea-hong n. (see hong n.)
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1885 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 281 [The tea-leaves are] fired under their own supervision in the great tea-hongs.
tea industry n.
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1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 99/1 The tea industry has developed in Ceylon with marvellous rapidity.
tea merchant n.
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1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 407 [To] exert themselves..in favour of the Bostonian tea-merchants.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 291/2 The number of tea merchants who resort to Canton.
tea producer n.
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1894 Westm. Gaz. 5 Jan. 6/3 The British have become..the greatest tea-producers..in the world.
tea producing adj.
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1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 98/2 Till well into the 19th century..China and Japan were the only two tea-producing countries.
tea supply n.
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1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 101/1 Dependent on China for its tea supply.
tea-tax n.
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1907 Edinb. Rev. July 97 The tea-tax strikes tea-drinkers only.
tea trade n.
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1756 J. Hanway Ess. Tea xii, in Jrnl. Eight Days Journey 258 The tea trade employs six hundred seamen..together with six ships, which we annually send to Canton.
tea using adj.
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1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 102/2 The only other considerable tea-using nation is Russia.
tea warehouse n.
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1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 May 10/1 Certain tea warehousemen of the City of London.
b. Of, pertaining or relating to, dealing or connected with tea as a beverage.
tea-body n.
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the second sex1536
the woman sex1536
feminie1541
mesdames1552
the fairer (also gentler, softer, weaker, etc.) sex1578
sex1589
ladyhooda1666
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wimmin1710
womenfolk1729
mesdemoiselles1739
the female of the species1795
femalitiesc1801
ladykind1829
womanity1836
womandom1838
ladydom1843
petticoatery1849
tea-body1865
muslin1884
the skirt1899
quim1909
womyn1975
womxn1991
1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xxxii The squire..drank, defying ladies and the new-fangled subserviency to those flustering tea-bodies.
tea-breakfast n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > breakfast or morning meal
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jentation1599
jenticulation1658
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English breakfast1773
déjeuner1787
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tea-breakfast1825
cooked breakfast1848
chota hazri1863
hunt-breakfast1877
petit déjeuner1879
brekker1889
brekkie1904
Continental breakfast1911
prayer breakfast1930
Oslo breakfast1937
fry1959
1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 951 I..got up..to a hot tea-breakfast.
tea-dinner n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper
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late dinner1649
ordinary suppera1661
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ball supper1794
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kitchen supper1837
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evenmeat1848
tea-dinner1862
luncheon1903
1862 R. C. Mayne Four Years in Brit. Columbia 121 We lunched with him, returning to the fort for a tea-dinner.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 402 That customary but very unwholesome combination the tea-dinner is to be avoided.
tea-dregs n.
tea junketing n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party
school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party
tea1738
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
cookie shine1830
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
muffin-fight1876
coffee-party1886
kaffeeklatsch1888
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
klatsch1953
coffee morning1962
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) xxvi. 189 Little humdrum tea junketings.
tea picnic n.
tea soirée n.
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school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party
tea1738
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
cookie shine1830
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
muffin-fight1876
coffee-party1886
kaffeeklatsch1888
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
klatsch1953
coffee morning1962
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. vi. 61 A brilliant tea soireé.
tea sot n.
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1877 G. W. Balfour in Encycl. Brit. VII. 482/1 Tea-sots are well known to be affected with palpitation and irregularity of the heart.
tea-supper n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > tea
tea1738
high tea1787
tea and turn out1806
supper1818
tousy tea1835
meat tea1842
thé complet1856
low tea1883
thick tea1886
tea-supper1892
cream tea1964
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 198 The story-book which Moses read out after tea-supper.
tea-visit n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party
school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party
tea1738
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
cookie shine1830
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
muffin-fight1876
coffee-party1886
kaffeeklatsch1888
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
klatsch1953
coffee morning1962
1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 322 Yonder professors come..from a tea-visit.
1807 Salmagundi 24 Jan. 10 When ladies paid tea-visits, at three in the afternoon.
c. Containing or intended to contain tea.
tea-bowl n.
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1886 Guide Galleries Brit. Mus. 209 On the upper shelves are examples of..tea-bowls.
tea-hamper n.
tea-jar n.
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1870 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 21 Feb. (1911) I. 74 An old Staffordshire Ware tea-jar.
1870 C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 74 Our purchase of the George III tea-jar.
1983 J. Sligo Concert Masters iv. 105 The Chinese tea jar on the mantelpiece.
tea-mug n.
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1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences viii. 186 There is said to be a class which considers the tea-mug very chic.
tea-pail n.
tea-slop n.
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1906 J. Joyce Let. 8 Dec. (1966) II. 201 Your friend..ought to get a running kick in the arse for writing his tea-slop about it.
1967 E. A. Gollschewsky in Coast to Coast 1965–6 94 Ettie surveyed the tea-table. It was still fairly orderly... No tea-slops in saucers.
d. Of or pertaining to the tea-plant or its cultivation.
tea crop n.
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1906 Month Feb. 177 Sides green with sprouting tea crops.
tea cultivation n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 286/2 Papers respecting tea cultivation in India.
tea culture n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 286/1 The tea-culture in Assam.
tea district n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 286/1 There are green tea and black tea districts.
tea estate n.
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1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 102/1 Next to the United Kingdom, the greatest tea-importing nation is the United States.
tea-farming n.
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1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 May 6/1 The new industry of tea-farming..promises to become a new source of wealth to Ceylon.
tea-field n.
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1895 ‘C. Holland’ My Japanese Wife 110 The cemeteries and tea-fields stretched below us.
tea-hill n.
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1854 Zoologist 12 4206 The tea-hills in the province of Chekiang.
tea manufacture n.
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1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 99/1 It is these tender shoots..which alone are gathered for tea manufacture.
tea nursery n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 286/2 When the tea nurseries were established in Assam.
tea plantation n.
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1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 286/2 The tea plantations established in the Kumaon and Gurhwal districts.
tea-seed n.
ΚΠ
1786 M. Cutler Let. 20 Apr. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 190 I have no doubt the tea seed..may be obtained from the East Indies in a vegetative state.
tea-tract n.
ΚΠ
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 286/2 At first only a few [indigenous] tea-tracts were discovered [in Assam].
C2.
a. Objective and objective genitive, instrumental and parasynthetic.
(a)
tea-blender n.
ΚΠ
1904 Westm. Gaz. 15 Aug. 6/2 The big tea-blenders naturally took advantage of this cheapness to push and extend their business.
tea-grower n.
tea-packer n.
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1904 Daily News 13 Oct. 12 The dispute between the tea-packers and the management of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.
tea-producer n.
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1902 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 9/3 The Tea Clearing House has succumbed to the attack of tea producers, importers, dealers, and brokers.
tea-sipper n.
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1756 J. Hanway Ess. Tea viii, in Jrnl. Eight Days Journey 245 Were they the sons of tea-sippers, who won the fields of Cressy and Agincourt?
tea-spiller n.
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1837 W. Phillips in C. Martyn Life (1890) 96 Certainly we sons of the tea-spillers are a marvellously patient generation! [Cf. tea-party n. 2a.]
tea-strainer n.
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1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 26 Jan. 4/6 Kitchen utilities..Tea Strainers.
1970 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. 1970–71 Autumn–Winter 895 A stainless steel tea strainer and a decorated ceramic tile are set into a Teak wood base in this contemporary Danish design.
(b)
tea-blending n. and adj.
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1901 Daily Chron. 6 May 9/3 Man wanted for tea blending warehouse.
tea-growing n. and adj.
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1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 99/1 Comparatively few regions are suited for practical tea-growing.
1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 99/1 The capacities of Assam as a tea-growing country.
tea-loving n. and adj.
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1883 Cassell's Family Mag. Aug. 529/1 The tea-loving English public.
tea-packing n. and adj.
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1898 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 10/6 Boy wanted..in tea-packing warehouse.
tea-picking n. and adj.
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1906 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 457 Their..method is to stalk the Chinese of either sex when they are engaged in tea-picking.
tea-swilling n. and adj.
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1961 Times 2 Oct. 13/4 Arms akimbo, bridling, bristling, and scolding, the tea-swilling Dame would at last be caught in the mangle.
(c)
tea-bathed adj.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 252 He smiled at bronze's teabathed lips, at listening lips and eyes.
tea-coated adj.
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a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 48 Willy Nilly the Postman's dark and sizzling damp tea-coated misty pygmy kitchen.
tea-coloured adj.
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1829 W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo I. 194 Short tights of tea-coloured leather.
tea-covered adj.
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1897 J. A. Graham On Threshold Three Closed Lands ii. 30 As our eye follows up one of the tea-covered spurs it lights on the houses of Darjeeling.
tea-drowned adj.
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1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. 161 What will be the future of these young tea-drowned nations?
tea-dunked adj.
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1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 68 A small middle-aged man (with unusually big brown ears, like tea-dunked ginger-biscuits).
tea-inspired adj.
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1891 B. E. Martin Footpr. C. Lamb iii. 65 Hazlitt, with..his tea-inspired turgidity.
tea-sodden adj.
b.
tea-brown adj.
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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 509 A nymph with hair unbound, lightly clad in teabrown art colours, descends from her grotto.
C3. Special combinations: See also tea-berry n., tea-board n., tea-chest n., etc. † tea-conversation n. Obsolete (see conversation n. 9). † tea-dish n. Obsolete old name for a teacup (cf. dish n. 1b). † tea-equipage n. Obsolete = tea-service n., tea-things n.† tea-faced adj. Obsolete ? having a sallow or effeminate countenance like one addicted to tea-drinking.† tea-grouter n. Obsolete (see quot.).† tea-kitchen n. Obsolete a tea-urn (cf. kitchen n.1 6a).† tea-ladle n. Obsolete a ladle for serving tea.† tea-paper n. Obsolete the ornamental paper used as a wrapper for tea (obsolete).† tea-saucer n. Obsolete a saucer for supporting a teacup. † tea-shine n. colloquial Obsolete a tea party (cf. tea-fight n.).† tea-tongs n. Obsolete a former name for sugar-tongs.
tea ball n. a ball of wire or perforated metal in which tea is placed for infusion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 187/1 Pure Aluminium, Tea Ball, total length, 7 in. Ball 1½ in. dia.
1929 Nation (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 666 The tea ball enables one to pull the tea out before it has given off its tannin.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 16 Oct. 10/3 Peel and crush six cloves of garlic and tie them in a piece of cheesecloth or put them in a tea ball and add this to the warm liquid.
tea bar n. a bar (bar n.1 28) at which tea is sold as a beverage.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tearoom or tea-stall
tearoom1733
tea-stall1889
tea-tent1890
tea-shop1915
tea place1929
tea bar1952
1952 Times 12 Nov. 3/2 Tea bars are increasing.
1976 Lancs. Evening Post 7 Dec. 2/2 Mrs. Alice Durdle serves tea to the over 60s at the Lilian Wood Memorial Centre tea bar in Market Street, Preston.
tea basket n. a basket containing the requisites for afternoon tea in a railway train or the like.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1891 Queen 31 Oct. p. xxxvii (advt.) Drews' Patent En Route 5 o'clock Tea Basket.
1901 Wide World Mag. 8 135/1 There is a lump of sugar in the tea-basket.
tea-bell n. a bell rung to summon a household or company to tea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun] > summons to meal
dinner bella1635
kale-bell1776
dinner call1799
tea-bell1836
breakfast-bell1842
warning bell1849
soupy1899
warning gong1938
1836 Knickerbocker 8 418 It was nearly time for the tea-bell to ring.
1869 A. J. Evans Vashti i. 16 The sound of the tea-bell terminated her reverie, and rising, she walked slowly to the dining-room.
tea-billy n. (billy n.3) a tin can used by Australian bushmen as a tea-kettle or teapot; also used in New Zealand.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 133 A number of tea-billies were ranged on the clay hobs, some with tea already brewed, and some with water only.
1939 J. Mulgan Man Alone 81 viii. 81 Around him were spread his belongings..clothes, boots, two black tea-billies..and a grey blanket.
tea-boiler n. a vessel used for boiling tea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1839 A. Langton Jrnl. in Gentlewoman Upper Canada (1950) 101 The pie plates, too, are very nice, and also the little tea-boiler.
tea-bottle n. a bottle containing tea (sense 2a); also slang, an old maid.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle > for tea
tea-bottle1909
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > elderly
old maid1530
old maiden1566
pussock1622
ape-leader1652
thornback1694
spinster1719
tabby1748
virgin1759
tea-bottle1909
1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 241/2 Tea-bottle (Mid.-class), and old maid—from the ordinary drink of spinsters.
1975 B. Meyrick Behind Light xv. 198 He unwedged the sought-after tea bottle from its place behind the pipes.
tea-box n. (a) a box for containing tea; in quot. 1825 = tea-chest n. 2; (b) Canadian a box for carrying food and cooking utensils on an expedition.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > box for tea
tea-canister1726
tea-chest1740
tea-box1758
tea-caddy1790
caddy1792
the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > container for provisions
provision basket1770
sandwich case1815
tommy bag1843
lunchbox1862
bait-poke1863
teabag1898
brown bag1947
tiffin-carrier1960
tea-box1972
1758 A. Pitt Let. 10 Nov. in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) II. 252 So I design to send it [sc. a letter] with a tea box my sister left and does not want.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 632 The lead which lines the Chinese tea-boxes is reduced to a thinness which our plumbers cannot, it is said, approach.
1972 S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic vii. 154 In no time at all had the team hitched up, and his rifle and teabox abroad.
tea-boy n. (a) a man-servant; (b) a youth (occasionally a man) employed to serve tea to workers.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > server of tea
tea-boy1847
tea man1857
tea-girl1889
tea master1914
tea-lady1964
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > man or boy
knightc950
knapec1000
shalkOE
knaveOE
sergeantc1200
swainc1275
groom1297
garcion13..
ladc1300
harlota1350
serving-mana1400
manservant1409
varlet1483
handman1496
custrelinga1556
Sim Shakebuckler?1560
lackey-boy1575
vadelect1586
muchacho1591
round robin1591
varlettoa1616
vadelet1661
gossoon1684
skip1699
mozo1811
Jack1836
tea-boy1847
John1848
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxvii. 234 Major O'Dowd..was..as obedient to his wife as if he had been her tay-boy.
1852 Ld. Granville Let. 19 Jan. in E. Fitzmaurice Life Ld. Granville (1905) I. iii. 68 The teaboys of our own and our neighbour's establishments.
1954 Atlantic Aug. 35/1 The auction porters ate their dinners off thick white plates brought over by a cross-eyed teaboy from a café down the road.
1963 Times 31 May 12/6 Brutus..said that because of the banning order he was no longer able to work as a teacher and had had to take a job as a ‘tea boy’ with a research worker at the University of the Witwatersrand, for which he got £10 a month.
1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 3/2 He certainly writes with all the flowing panache of a trainee teaboy.
tea-bread n. a kind of light bread eaten at tea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > fancy bread > other fancy bread
bun-bread1494
tea-bread1831
seraglio cake1842
pandoro1950
1831 W. O. Porter & J. Porter Sir Edward Seaward's Narr. I. 229 Some johnny cakes, a West Indian sort of tea-bread.
tea break n. an interval, usually between periods of work, when tea is drunk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation > between two events, actions, operations, etc.
intervalc1386
intervallum1574
wheta1628
interstice1639
period1865
grace period1880
tea break1948
1948 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. 38 113 Many reasons were given for the almost universal appreciation of the tea break.
1958 A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning ii. 35 The light flashed: tea-break over.
1981 Economist 18 Nov. 17/2 Strikes during the contract period (like the present tea-break strike at BL) would bring heavy damages on the unions.
tea-brick n. a brick of compressed tea leaves (cf. brick tea n.).
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > forms of dry tea
brick tea1789
tile-tea1858
tablet tea1890
tea-dust1897
tip1897
tea-brick1962
1962 L. Davidson Rose of Tibet v. 87 He had bought tea bricks..and a large cake of yak butter.
1981 Times 7 July 12/7 A food shop in Covent Garden..has introduced.. tea-bricks, such as Chinese mandarins once used to pay their taxes.
tea-broom n. New Zealand name for Leptospermum scoparium and L. ericoides (= manuka n. (a), (b), tea tree n. 2).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > myrtles > [noun]
myrt?a1200
myrt-treea1382
mirtusc1384
myrtine?a1450
myrtle tree1548
myrtle1562
nerte1585
Australian tea1728
Bencoolen tea1728
New Zealand tea1728
Scotch gale1795
Callistemon1814
manuka1832
myrtal1846
mangrove-myrtle1847
swamp tea tree1862
lid-flower1866
Barringtonia1871
tea-broom1872
kanuka1906
myrtle-of-the-river1919
1872 A. Domett Ranolf & Amohia Notes 505 Mánuka... The settlers often call it ‘tea-broom’.
tea-bug n. a destructive insect which infests tea-plants.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > miscellaneous types > member of genus Helopeltis
mosquito blight1884
tea-bug1893
1893 Athenæum 16 Dec. 853/3 Mr. Waterhouse..exhibited male and female specimens of a Helopeltis (the tea-bug),..and stated that it had occurred only in Assam.
tea-bush n. = tea-shrub n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun]
tea1663
tea-shrub1704
tea-plant1728
tea tree1760
tea-bush1908
1908 Dollar Mag. Mar. 32 The tea bushes were miserably poor just there.
tea-caddy n. a small box with divisions for holding tea (= caddy n.1 1a).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > box for tea
tea-canister1726
tea-chest1740
tea-box1758
tea-caddy1790
caddy1792
1790 Pennsylvania Packet 7 Dec. 3/3 Joseph Anthony, Junior,..Has Imported..Tea cadies, cannisters and salts.
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. ix. 254 Tea-caddies, work-boxes of rosewood and pearl.
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds xvii. 181 [She] went to a cupboard..and took therefrom a tea-caddy, which she set on the table.
teacake n. a light kind of flat cake to be eaten at tea; in quot. 1892 attributive resembling a teacake.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > bun > [noun]
bun1371
wig1376
barley-bun1552
simnel cake1699
simlin1701
muffin1703
Chelsea bun1711
cross-bun1733
hot cross bun1733
penny bun1777
Sally Lunn1780
huffkin1790
Bath-bun1801
teacake1832
English muffin1842
saffron bun1852
Belgian bun1854
Valentine-bun1854
cinnamon roll1872
lunn1874
Yorkshire teacake1877
barmbrack1878
cinnamon bun1879
sticky bun1880
pan dulce1882
schnecke1899
wad1919
tabnab1933
1832 L. M. Child Amer. Frugal Housewife 71 There is a kind of tea cake still cheaper.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xvii. 216 Tea and coffee arrived (with sweet preserves, and cunning teacakes in its train).
1892 Daily News 31 Dec. 2/1 The bonnet of the moment is set well back on the head, forming a sort of garland above the ‘teacake’ coiffure.
1897 R. Hichens Londoners ix. 156 Mr. Bush..was closely engaged with a tea-cake.
tea-can n. a metal can used for brewing or carrying tea.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1890 H. K. Daniels Me & Jim 67 The new plumber he gave him no answer except to drink from his tea-can and go on reading where he'd left off.
1951 J. Fleming Man who looked Back x. 120 He picked up his tea-can.
1978 Lancashire Life Nov. 75/2 Erect, at Uncle Dan's immediate righthand, was a large, shining tea-can, its lid back in place.
tea-canister n. = tea-caddy n.; also, slang for ‘brandy-flask’ (cf. 7a).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > box for tea
tea-canister1726
tea-chest1740
tea-box1758
tea-caddy1790
caddy1792
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > carrying flask > for liquor
pocket pistol1754
hunting-flask1823
tea-canister1859
hip flask1888
1726 in Notes & Queries (1942) 24 Jan. 46/1 Bowl & tea canister.
1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville III. xxvii. 126 The tea-canister contained only Congou of no very superior quality.
1859 F. Francis Newton Dogvane (1888) 184 Pass us the tea-canister.
tea cart n. U.S. a tea-trolley.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tea cart.
1958 P. De Vries Mackerel Plaza iv. 56 A teacart hove into view, laden with goodies.
1978 ‘M. Delving’ No Sign of Life i. 15 His wife came into the room followed by the maid pushing a tea-cart.
tea-case n. a case for holding a set of small articles, as spoons, etc. used at tea ( Cent. Dict.).
tea ceremony n. in Japan, the preparation and consumption of green tea, according to strict rules of ceremony, as an expression of Zen Buddhist philosophy.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > tea ceremony > [noun]
chanoyu1727
tea ceremony1885
1885 E. S. Morse Japanese Homes (1886) iii. 149 The party comes about by the host inviting a company of four to attend the tea-ceremony, and in their presence making the tea in a bowl after certain prescribed forms, and offering it to the guests.
1935 Burlington Mag. Mar. 147/2 The tea ceremony, a rite so essentially Japanese that it might be said to epitomize Japanese culture.
1980 ‘J. Melville’ Chrysanthemum Chain 16 A classic four-and-a-half mat tea room with a blond foreigner in full formal Japanese dress performing the tea ceremony.
tea-china n. china teacups and saucers, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > tea-cup or saucer
saucer1693
teacup1700
tea-dish1711
tea-saucer1762
tea-china1790
1790 J. Woodforde Diary 15 Dec. (1927) III. 235 My Maid Betty Dade breaking likewise the only Tea China-Slop-Basin..made me more fretful.
1830 M. R. Mitford Our Village IV. 332 The dresser was..adorned with the remains of a long preserved set of tea-china, of a light rambling pattern.
tea-chop n. [chop n.5 5] in China, a chop-boat or lighter for the transportation of tea.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > lighter > types of
keel1322
ballast lighter1691
keel-boat1695
lump1796
tea-chop1876
1876 F. W. H. Symondson Two Years abaft Mast vii. 136 A large ‘tea chop’ (a tea barge) came alongside.
1886 R. Brown Spunyarn & Spindrift xxvii. 328 The river was so swollen by the rains that the tea-chops could not get through Foo-chow bridge.
tea-circle n. a group or society of persons who meet and take tea together.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > club > types of club
penny club1631
country club1679
soaking club1694
fire clubc1744
tea-circle1834
student union1843
Boys' Club1855
house club1893
tennis club1894
service club1898
book club1904
Darby and Joan club1942
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. ix. 97/1 Thou..perhaps in many a literary Tea-circle wilt open thy kind lips.
tea-clam n. a name in U.S. for a very small clam (clam n.2 1d).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves
cockOE
cockle1311
conch?1527
palour1589
conchyle1610
bivalvular1677
bivalve1684
nut-mussel1705
concha1755
cuckolda1757
Acephala1802
pullet1803
ciliograde1835
conchifer1835
acephalan1840
acephal1845
bivalvian1863
pelecypod1875
tea-clam1883
steamer clam1909
1883 G. B. Goode Rev. Fishery Industries U.S. 47 Some are taken so small that 2,000 are required to fill a barrel; these, when about one inch in diameter, are called ‘tea-clams’.
tea-clipper n. a clipper or fast-sailing vessel formerly employed in the tea trade.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > types of fast sailing vessel
carvel1462
caravel1527
yachta1584
fly-boat1590
calvara1592
lorcha1653
runner1699
scampavia1723
clipper1824
clipper-ship1853
fruit-clipper1864
heeler1864
tea-clipper1895
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying tea
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
tea-clipper1895
1895 Mem. J. Anderson ii. 8 Mr. and Mrs. Anderson set sail from London in a tea-clipper.
tea-cloth n. (a) a cloth used for wiping tea-things after washing them; (b) afternoon tea-cloth, a small tablecloth used at afternoon tea.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > equipment for washing or drying table utensils
water-clothOE
neck towel1493
dish-clout1530
mop1683
bottlebrush1685
rinse1738
tea-cloth1770
dishcloth1828
dish-rag1839
tea-towel1863
dish-towel1869
dish-pan1872
lappie1892
dish-mop1897
washing-up cloth1973
1770 C. Carroll Let. 11 Oct. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) 13 62 A Hierling..stole a napkin two Towels & a Tea Cloath wh we Recovered.
1881 C. C. Harrison Woman's Handiwork Mod. Homes i. 49 The beautiful tea-cloth linen, with its firm round thread, the warp and woof of equal thickness, so common in England.
1888 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII. Tea-cloth, a cloth used in washing up tea-things.
1891 Cent. Dict. Tea-cloth, a cloth for a tea-table or a tea-tray.
tea-coat n. a garment worn by women at the tea-table (cf. coat n. 2b, and tea-jacket).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > for specific purpose > other
dust-coat1702
hunting-coat1789
pinkc1791
reading-coat1830
wedding-coat1838
zephyr1843
lab coat1895
tea-coat1899
stroller1901
bridge coat1905
sport coat1917
sportster1929
laboratory coatc1936
car coat1956
1899 Westm. Gaz. 12 Aug. 2/1 She came into the room..in a black-and-blue sort of tea-coat.
tea-cooper n. a workman at a dock who unloads tea and does any necessary repairs to the packing, etc.: cf. cooper n.1 1.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who load or unload > tea
tea-cooper1887
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Sept. 2 Years ago the tea-coopers, who are skilled workmen, had a union.
tea-cosy n. (a) a covering for a teapot to keep it hot (see cosy n. 2); (b) in full tea-cosy hat, a round knitted woollen hat resembling a tea-cosy.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > woollen > types of
caudebeck1656
vigone1656
cowbeck1670
tea-cosy1871
dut1939
pakul1982
1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 18 The elaborate worsted-work teapot cover—technically termed, I believe, a tea-cosey.
1886 Daily News 28 Dec. 7/4 (advt.) Cushions, Tea Coseys, Antimacassars, etc.
1966 Observer 20 Mar. 11/1 Our driver carefully changed his bowler for the modish Cossack tea-cosy, ensembled with string gloves.
1975 M. Russell Murder by Mile x. 101 A scarlet tea-cosy hat perched on top of her hair.
tea dance n. an afternoon entertainment at which there is dancing and tea is served; = thé dansant n.; also Canadian, ‘a social gathering held by Indians, so called because in the early days the Hudson's Bay Company contributed tea, bannock, etc.’ ( Dict. Canadianisms, 1967).
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > of North American Indians
powwow1663
potlatch1858
tea dance1885
society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > at which food is served
thé dansant1817
tea dance1885
supper dance1913
tango tea1913
dansant1921
1885 T. Gowanlock Two Months Camp of Big Bear 119 When the Indians held their tea-dances or pow-wows in times of peace, the squaws and their children joined in and it was a very amusing sight to watch them.
1916 W. Stevens Let. 23 Apr. (1967) 193 People are pretty much dependent on the same things as in New-York: band concerts, tea-dances and..coffee-parties.
1965 News of North (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) 29 July 5/4 The ceremony was marked by a tea dance, in which everyone joined.
1978 Lancashire Life Nov. 129/2 For in a brave gesture of defiance in the punk era, the management has resurrected the Sunday Afternoon Tea Dance. It's all very Palm Court, even if the palms are plastic.
tea-dance v. (intransitive) .
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > take part in ball [verb (intransitive)] > in other dances
taxi dance1929
tea-dance1960
1960 Brownsville (Texas) Herald 28 June 4/4 Now you can see why the Patterson-Johansson fight didn't mean much to me. Those kids in the Polo Grounds were just tea-dancing.
1964 Camsell Arrow (Edmonton, Alberta) Summer 60/4 High point of their four months in the north was the invitation to join the Indians ‘tea dancing’ Anne said.
tea-dancer n.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > at which food is served > participant
tea-dancer1980
1980 Radio Times 29 Nov. 87/4 So keen are the Tea Dancers that they have picked up all these [dances].
tea-dancing n.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > at which food is served > participation
tea-dancing1946
1946 New Yorker 2 Feb. 4 A Melba trio plays in the Café Pierre, where there is tea dancing daily.
1977 New Yorker 3 Oct. 95/1 Tea dancing at the Kempinski. This goes on every day.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > tea-cup or saucer
saucer1693
teacup1700
tea-dish1711
tea-saucer1762
tea-china1790
1711 L. Eusden in Spectator No. 87. ⁋8 I saw a gentleman turn as pale as ashes, because an idol turned the sugar in a tea-dish for his rival.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 279 They shew'd me..a cup about the size of a tea-dish of one entire Emerald.
tea-drunkard n. one who habitually drinks tea to such excess as to suffer from its toxic effects.
tea-dust n. tea of inferior quality, often made from leaves broken in the course of production; also used attributively to designate a dark green or brownish (often speckled) glaze on Chinese pottery (see quot. 1897), esp. used on decorative ware [translating Chinese chá yè mò tea-leaf dust] .
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > forms of dry tea
brick tea1789
tile-tea1858
tablet tea1890
tea-dust1897
tip1897
tea-brick1962
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > painting or coating materials > [adjective] > glazed > types of ceramic or pottery glaze
stanniferous1823
raw1825
flambé1886
tea-dust1897
monastic1909
tin-enamelled1933
starved1964
1897 S. W. Bushell Oriental Ceramic Art vii. 264 One of the best-known glazes..is the Ch'a-yeh-mo, or ‘Tea-dust’ glaze, produced by the insufflation of green enamel upon a yellowish-brown ground, which owes its color to iron. The combination produces a peculiarly soft tint of greenish tone, which was highly prized in the reign of Ch'ien-lung.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Suppl., Tea-dust.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 56 Through the open doorway the bar squirted out whiffs of ginger, teadust, biscuitmush.
1945 W. B. Honey Ceramic Art of China 145 The ‘iron-rust’ and greenish ‘tea-dust’ glazes..are usually of Ch'ien Lung date.
1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. i. 175 Good quality tea packaged in the form of leaf and known as ‘leaf tea’, and an inferior variety, comparatively inexpensive, called tea-dust.
1980 Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 84 A massive tea-dust bowl..with a finely speckled deep olive-green glaze,..the base covered in an ochre-yellow glaze.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 246 He cleans all his Tea-Equipage with his own Hands.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. ii. 33 The tea equipage was on the table.
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the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective]
womanly?c1225
ferbleta1300
effeminatea1393
nicea1393
softc1450
manlessa1529
unmanly1534
cockney1573
effeminated1580
unmanlikea1586
milky1602
enervate1603
womanizing1615
emasculate1622
womanized1624
softly1643
womanlish1647
unmasculine1649
emollid1656
ladylike1656
enervated1660
emasculated1701
petticoated1708
tea-faced1728
effeminized1789
invirile1870
epicene1881
sissyish1889
sissified1898
devirilized1901
cockless1902
camp1909
pansy1929
campy1932
queenly1933
poncy1937
pansyish1941
swishy1941
moffie1954
poofy1956
femme1963
poofed-up1964
minty1965
ponced-up1970
lavender1979
1728 A. Ramsay On seeing Archers divert Themselves 26 When av'rice, luxury, and ease, A tea-fac'd generation please.
tea-fight n. colloquial or slang humorous name for a tea party or tea-meeting.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party
school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party
tea1738
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
cookie shine1830
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
muffin-fight1876
coffee-party1886
kaffeeklatsch1888
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
klatsch1953
coffee morning1962
1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xxxv Their various small parties—‘tea-fights’ as young Grant called them.
1901 Scotsman 5 Mar. 7/5 The good people..organise a splendid weekly tea-fight and concert for our behoof.
tea-frock n.
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1903 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 4/1 The tea-frock—the form of the tea-gown nice for the younger folks.
tea-gown n. names for special fashions of garments worn by girls and women at tea.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific purpose > other
ball-dress1710
presentation dress1836
party frock1858
tea-gown1878
semi-evening gown1891
little black frock1898
cocktail dress1921
cocktail frock1926
little black dress1928
practice dress1934
1878 The World in Royal Exchange 9 Nov. Ladies, who a few years ago would have considered the idea appalling, calmly array themselves in the glorified dressing robe known as a ‘tea gown’.
1891 Woman 15 Jan. 4/1 The factor which has revolutionised the novelistic attire of to-day is the evolution of the tea-gown.
tea-girl n. a girl who serves tea.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > server of tea
tea-boy1847
tea man1857
tea-girl1889
tea master1914
tea-lady1964
1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1900) I. 444 The tea-girls giggled.
1976 S. Wales Echo 23 Nov. 6/9 Every employee.., from senior executives to tea girls, would be interviewed.
tea-glass n. a glass from which tea (esp. without milk) is drunk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > glass
glassc888
verrea1382
Venice glass1527
rummer1625
bottle glass1626
Malaga glassa1627
flute1649
flute-glass1668
long glass1680
mum-glass1684
toasting glass1703
wine glass1709
tulip-glass1755
tun-glass1755
water glass1779
tumbler-glass1795
Madeira glass1801
tumbling glass1803
noggin glass1805
champagne glass1815
table glass1815
balloon glass1819
copita1841
firing glass1842
nobbler1842
thimble glass1843
wine1848
liqueur-glass1850
straw-stem1853
pokal1854
goblet1856
mousseline1862
pony glass1862
long-sleever1872
cocktail glass1873
champagne flute1882
yard-glass1882
sleever1896
tea-glass1898
liqueur1907
dock-glass1911
toast-master glass1916
Waterford1916
stem-glass1922
Pilsner glass1923
Amen glass1924
ballon1930
balloon goblet1931
thistle glass1935
snifter1937
balloon1951
shot-glass1955
handle1956
tulip1961
schooner1967
champagne fountain1973
1898 A. Cahan Imported Bridegroom xi. 121 Jealousy..of the empty tea-glasses.., of the whole excited crowd.
1979 D. Gurr Troika xxxiv. 260 Alexey grabbing at the rail, tea glass dropping from his fingers.
tea-green n. a shade of greyish green resembling the colour of tea.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > greyish green
sage colour1596
sage-green1810
almond green1870
sage1881
Lovat1895
Marina green1935
tea-green1956
1956 W. Edwards in D. L. Linton Sheffield I. 16 East of the River Trent it [sc. the Rhaetic] overlies the ‘Tea-Green Marls’ at the top of the Keuper.
1967 Vogue 1 Mar. 161/1 She loves the colours. White, pink, blue, butterscotch, tea green, [etc.].
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > fortune-telling > [noun] > fortune-teller
spaeman?a1505
cole-prophet1532
lot-teller1575
fortune-teller1612
fortune-flinger1642
fatary1652
fatiloquist1652
fortunary1652
fortune-speller1652
tea-groutera1833
tick-off1934
a1833 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1905) 76 A prognostication announced to my dear mother by an old star-gazer and tea-grouter. Note. A fortune-teller by tea-leaves, the leaves being ‘grouted’, or turned over in the cup.
tea-head n. slang (originally U.S.) a habitual user of marijuana (cf. sense 7c above and head n.1 13a).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > drug-user > user of marijuana
muggle-head1926
tea man1938
weedhead1939
reefer1940
tea-head1953
grasshopper1954
pothead1957
pot smoker1965
stoner1971
toker1975
1953 W. S. Burroughs Junkie ii. 32 Perhaps weed does affect the brain with constant use, or maybe teaheads are naturally silly.
1967 Guardian 8 July 6/2 Doctors, commissions, and plain tea-heads have been ready to go on record about the innocence of the weed cannabis sativa.
1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly xiii. 149 A punchy Hell's Angel tea-head.
tea hostess n. a woman in charge of serving tea at a tea party or other social occasion.
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society > leisure > social event > hospitality > hospitable person > [noun] > hostess > type of
political hostess1883
salonnièrea1922
tea hostess1976
1976 Norwich Mercury 19 Nov. 2/5 Mrs J. Bowhill acted as model for the evening dress... Tea hostesses were Mrs Kedge and Mrs Williams.
tea-hound n. [hound n.1 4e] U.S. slang (now rare) a man given to frequenting tea parties; also in extended use, a lady's man (see quot. 1921).
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt > ladies' man or philanderer
gallanta1450
dalliera1568
women's man1568
amorist1595
woman's man1597
lady-mongerc1600
dammaret1635
topgallant1701
agapet1736
ladies' man1764
Jack among the maids1785
philanderer1841
Romeo1902
tea-hound1921
bird dog1942
1921 Dial. Notes 5 111 Tea-hound, a lady's man.
1925 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 353/2 He was a regular tea-hound, he was seen at so many teas.
tea-hour n. the hour at which tea is taken, or the time occupied by it.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > meal-time > [noun] > tea-time
teatime1721
bagging-time1835
tea-hour1884
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > afternoon > [noun] > tea-time
teatime1721
tea-hour1884
1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 109 Monopolised the..visitor himself for almost the entire tea-hour.
tea-house n. a refreshment-house where tea is served (esp. in China or Japan).
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1689 London Gaz. No. 2481/4 Catalogues are given at..Mr. Mainwaring's Tea-house.
1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg II. x. 54 From the temple we went to a publick tea-house, where we saw many people drinking tea [in Peking].
1909 Daily Chron. 7 June 4/6 This revolution..practically commenced when in 1657 Garraway opened his famous tea-house in Exchange-alley.
1959 Chang Hsing-lien et al. tr. Ting Yi Short Hist. Mod. Chinese Lit. x. 221 In the rear areas, there were other dramatic forms akin to the ‘street play’, such as the ‘tea-house play’, ‘demonstration play’ and the ‘lantern play’.
1972 K. Lo Chinese Food i. 50 There are no pubs or bars and most of the informal leisurely drinking takes place in tea-houses.
tea infuser n. = tea-maker n. (c).
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1889 A. James Diary 5 Aug. (1965) 52 A note of farewell from Mr. Godkin with a tea-infuser.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 188/3 Travellers' Companion... For making tea when touring, boating, &c... Comprises kettle,..stand, spirit stove,..and muslin tea infuser.
1960 Guardian 4 Jan. 3/1 Collapsible tea infusers.
tea interval n. a break for afternoon tea or light refreshment (esp. during a cricket match).
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society > leisure > [noun] > time off > specific
sabbatical year1599
tea interval1923
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > light meal or snacks > interval for
tea interval1923
1923 E. P. Oppenheim Inevitable Millionaires xxix. 288 ‘I haven't done wrong in making the tea, have I?’ she asked timidly... ‘Of course not,’ George Henry assured her. ‘The tea interval is an established custom.’
1976 E. R. Dexter & C. Makins Testkill 143 In the tea interval..I slipped into the pavilion.
tea-jacket n. a garment worn by women at tea (cf. tea-coat n.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > (suitable) for specific purpose
cork-jacket1762
tea-jacket1887
stroller1901
sports jacket1912
bed-jacket1914
smoking1922
hacking jacket1935
safari jacket1938
lumber jacket1939
judogi1944
loafer1959
1887 Girl's Own Paper 25 June 618/3 New tea-jacket, or après midi, for indoor wear.
1896 Daily News 5 Dec. 6/4 The increasing neatness of the tea-gown is perhaps partly owing to the smartness of cut of its rival, the tea jacket.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1770 J. Wedgwood Let. 24 –26 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 100 Mr. Boulton..shewed me some bodys and necks made of Porcelaine coloured green to be mounted in Ormoleau for Tea Kitchens.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1808 J. Austen Let. 28 Dec. (1995) 161 A silver Tea-Ladle is also added [to the list].
tea-lady n. a woman who serves tea (esp. in an office).
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > server of tea
tea-boy1847
tea man1857
tea-girl1889
tea master1914
tea-lady1964
1964 Listener 13 Feb. 287/1 ‘Filthy,’ said a friend's tea-lady the next morning.
1980 Times 13 Nov. 4/8 The tea trolley is being wheeled back... Two years ago, it seemed the ubiquitous tea lady was vanishing beneath a tide of vending machines. This year..automated services are in decline.
tea-lead n. an alloy used for lining tea-chests (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > alloy for lining tea-chests
tea-lead1815
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 52 The metal with which tea-chests are lined, familiarly called tea-lead, is an alloy principally composed of lead and tin.
tea machine n. a machine which makes or dispenses tea.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1963 Punch 8 May 675/1 I..fetched the tea machine into the house.
1972 J. Thomson Not One of Us xvii. 227 I kept..some paper cups. I used to nick them from the tea machine at the warehouse.
tea-maker n. (a) a person who dries the leaves and prepares the tea of commerce; (b) one who makes or infuses tea; (c) a vessel or apparatus for infusing tea; (d) an apparatus incorporating a timer and designed to be kept at the bedside which can be preset to make tea automatically at any time (typically on awaking).
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > person
tea-maker1814
the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > person
tea-maker1814
the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. vii. 160 There was..found a chair, and with some hasty washing of the young tea-maker's, a cup and saucer. View more context for this quotation
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 286/1 The process..as practised in Assam and Java by the Chinese tea-makers.
1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice ii The parson asked the tea-maker for another cup.
1900 Daily News 18 Sept. 6/3 It is put into a perforated receiver, suspended in the ‘tea-maker’, and boiling water poured over it.
1961 ‘T. Hinde’ For Good of Company xix. 214 Mary had switched on the bedside tea-maker.
1970 Sunday Times 20 Dec. 26/3 When the clock on the tea-maker began to go backwards its owners got their alarm call and a nice pot of tea at three a.m.
tea-making n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea
tea-making1826
teabag1886
drum-up1919
boil1940
brew-up1944
1826 (title) Tsiology; a discourse on Tea. Being an account of that exotic,..Tea-making... By a Tea Dealer.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. xii. 260 The operation, which, at Cambridge, is not called by so gentle a term as tea-making.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 100/1 In Chinese tea-making that juice is squeezed out of the leaves.
1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 207 Without a falter she performed the dainty little service of tea-making.
tea master n. an expert in the proper conduct of the tea ceremony.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > server of tea
tea-boy1847
tea man1857
tea-girl1889
tea master1914
tea-lady1964
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > tea ceremony > [noun] > expert in
tea man1857
tea master1914
1914 Y. Noguchi Through Torii 2 It is the high art of the tea-master to make you really taste the water beside the taste of the tea.
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Oct. 1190/3 In Kamakura for the first time a tea master did the tea ceremony for me.
tea-meeting n. a public social meeting (usually in connection with a religious organization) at which tea is taken.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party
school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party
tea1738
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
cookie shine1830
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
muffin-fight1876
coffee-party1886
kaffeeklatsch1888
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
klatsch1953
coffee morning1962
1897 St. James's Gaz. 18 Feb. 11/1 The posting of bills for soirees and tea-meetings.
tea money n. money paid by employees for drinks of tea at work (in quot. 1906, money paid by an employer to employees to buy their own tea); also transferred (see quot. 1979).
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1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xvii. 225 We're..puttin' down er mill that'll..never look fer tea money.
1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File i. 11 The office tea money.
1979 Rydge's (Sydney) Apr. 68/2 I observed a case in Thailand, where payoffs are euphemistically called tea-money.
tea-night n. an evening on which guests are entertained at tea.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party
school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party
tea1738
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
cookie shine1830
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
muffin-fight1876
coffee-party1886
kaffeeklatsch1888
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
klatsch1953
coffee morning1962
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. viii. 195 To secure the necessary degree of crowd upon her tea-nights, Lady Penelope was obliged to employ some coaxing.
tea oil n. (a) an oil resembling olive-oil, obtained from the seeds of species of Camellia (allied to the tea-plant), and used for various purposes in China and Japan; (b) a narcotic essential oil obtained from tea-leaves.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > miscellaneous narcotic drugs from plants
henbane?a1425
metel1528
datura1598
carpese1605
cabbage bark1777
majoun1780
lettuce opium1799
stramonium1802
niopo1821
tea oil1837
khat1858
pituri1861
steppe rue1881
ololiuqui1894
toloache1894
yopo1916
mellow yellow1966
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils
oil de baya1398
oil roseta1400
alkitranc1400
laurinec1400
oil of spicac1400
seed oil1400
rape oil1420
nut-oil?c1425
masticine?1440
oil de rose?1440
oil of myrtine?a1450
gingellya1544
rose oil1552
alchitrean1562
oil of spike1577
oil of ben1594
myrtle oil1601
sesamus1601
sampsuchine1616
oil of walnuts1622
rape1641
oil of rhodium1649
rapeseed oil1652
neroli1676
oil of mace1681
spirit of scurvy-grass1682
beech-oil1716
poppy oil1737
castor oil1746
oil of sassafras1753
orange-peel oil1757
wood-oil1759
bergamot1766
sunflower oil1768
Russia oil1773
oil castor1779
tung-yu1788
poppy-seed oil1799
cocoa butter1801
sassafras oil1801
phulwara1805
oil of wine1807
grass oil1827
oil of marjoram1829
cajuput oil1832
essence of mustarda1834
picamar1835
spurge oil1836
oenanthic ether1837
tea oil1837
capnomor1838
cinnamon-oil1838
oil of mustard1838
orange-flower oil1838
resinein1841
mustard oil1844
myrrhol1845
styrol1845
oenanthol1847
shea butter1847
wintergreen1847
gaultheria oil1848
ginger-grass oil.1849
nutmeg oil1849
pine oil1849
peppermint oil1850
cocoa fat1851
orange oil1853
neem oil1856
poonga oil1857
xanthoxylene1857
crab-oil1858
illupi oil1858
Shanghai oil1861
stand oil1862
mustard-seed oil1863
carap oilc1865
cocum butter or oilc1865
Kurung oil1866
muduga oil1866
pichurim oil1866
serpolet1866
sumbul oil1868
sesame oil1870
niger oil1872
summer yellow1872
olibene1873
patchouli oil1875
pilocarpene1876
styrolene1881
tung oil1881
becuiba tallow1884
soy oil1884
tea-seed oil1884
eucalyptus1885
sage oil1888
hop-oil1889
cotton-seed oil1891
lemon oil1896
palmarosa oil1897
illipe butter1904
hydnocarpus oil1905
tung1911
niger seed oil1917
sun oil1937
vanaspati1949
fennel oil-
1837 R. D. Thomson Brit. Ann. 358 Tea oil,..this beautiful vegetable oil the writer procured during a visit to China in 1832... According to Dr. Clark Abel, it is procured from the seeds of the camellia oleifera by expression.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 439 Tea oil is expressed from the seeds of the Camellia oleifera.
tea olive n. [ < the Chinese use of the flowers to add scent to tea] = sweet olive n. at sweet adj. and adv. Compounds 2.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [noun] > fragrant substance or perfume > plants and extracts used for
roseeOE
nardusOE
nardOE
lavendera1300
spikenardc1350
piste?1440
orris root1598
bainilla1678
amberseed1728
vanilla1728
ambrette1745
vanell1790
tonka bean1796
scent bean1822
muguet1830
lemon-grass1837
vanillea1845
sweet pea1890
snuff-bean1898
oak moss1921
tea olive1952
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > osmanthus
Osmanthus1836
sweet olive1861
tea olive1952
1952 M. Steen Phoenix Rising vi. 117 An over-powering fragrance of tea-olive rose from under her window.
1975 Country Life 2 Jan. 39/3 The grassy glade leading from river to house..heavy with the scent of tea olive..and banana tree.
tea pad n. U.S. slang a place where one can purchase and smoke marijuana.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > place for injecting drugs > place for taking marijuana
pad1938
tea pad1938
1938 New Yorker 12 Mar. 47/1 All tea pads, or marijuana joints, use the blue lamps and nickel machines to induce and sustain the hashish mood.
1963 Lancet 9 Nov. 989/2 For a few years the cult of the ‘tea pad’..threatened to be imported from the United States.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > wrapping-papers
cap-paper1577
packing paper1590
cap1620
German Lombard1712
wrapping-paper1715
butter paper1727
whitey-brown1761
kitchen paper?1782
emporetic1790
tea-paper1814
needle paper1852
small hand1853
grocer's paper1861
tobacco paper1877
grocery-paper1883
greaseproof paper1894
chip paper1935
toffee paper1958
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [noun] > a wrapping > material of > specific
cap-paper1577
pack paper1585
cap1620
wrapping-paper1715
tea-paper1814
bubble pack1956
bubble wrap1965
bubble plastic1978
buveera1994
kaveera1994
1814 F. Burney Let. 28 Oct. (1978) VII. 488 If you write to me again upon a scrap that can hardly arrive—I shall answer upon a bit of Tea paper.
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/4 Lithographic printers. Wanted, a man..well up in Tea-paper and Commercial Work.
tea place n. = tea-shop n. b.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tearoom or tea-stall
tearoom1733
tea-stall1889
tea-tent1890
tea-shop1915
tea place1929
tea bar1952
1929 D. H. Lawrence Let. 11 Jan. (1932) 780 We were in Toulon yesterday..and went to the same tea-place.
1978 P. Marsh et al. Rules of Disorder iii. 72 At the back there you can see down to the tea place underneath.
tea plate n. a small shallow plate for use at tea-time.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish
spice-plate1391
pie plate1573
maple dish1637
cheese platea1665
supper dish1664
copperplate1665
reaming dish1712
paper plate1723
pickle leaf1762
pap-boat1782
supper1787
vegetable dish1799
well-dish1814
ice plate1820
pudding plate1838
tea plate1862
picnic plate1885
strawberry dish1941
1862 M. D. Colt Went to Kansas iii. 48 Have arranged on them..our five tin plates, two tin cups, one tin tumbler, the nine tea-plates.
1972 Country Life 9 Mar. 547/3 These plates were made by the Britannia China Company..between 1895 and 1906. Such plates were known as..tea plates.
tea-punch n. punch containing tea as an ingredient.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > hot alcoholic drinks (with milk or eggs) > [noun] > punch > types of punch
rum punch1683
brandy-punch1689
milk punch1702
rack punch1713
tea-punch1728
rumbo1738
lime-punch1774
Tom and Jerries1822
poteen punch1826
Oxford punch1827
bimbo1837
mumbo-jum1837
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Punch Others prefer Tea-Punch, made of green Tea instead of Water, and drank hot.
tea-roller n. a machine for rolling or curling tea-leaves for the market.
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea manufacture > [noun] > tea-rolling or -curling machine
tea-roller1890
1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Oct. 2/3 The tea-rolling machine represented in our view..is the first tea-roller which has been used on English soil.
tea-rolling n.
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1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Oct. 2/3 The tea-rolling machine represented in our view..is the first tea-roller which has been used on English soil.
tea-root n. the root of a tea-plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun] > root of
tea-root1690
1690 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 13 I much admired the contorsions of the Thea roote, which was so perplext, large & intricate.
tea-sage n. a species or variety of sage used for making sage-tea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > medicinal and culinary plants > medicinal and culinary plant or part of plant > [noun] > sage plant, leaf, or root
sagea1350
sage leaf14..
sage root14..
savec1405
tea-sage1728
salvia1844
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > sage
sagea1350
savec1405
claryc1485
tea-sage1728
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sage Those used and cultivated by us are the Tea-Sage, or Sage of Virtue; the Red Sage, and the Wormwood Sage.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > tea-cup or saucer
saucer1693
teacup1700
tea-dish1711
tea-saucer1762
tea-china1790
1762 S. Dunn in Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 185 An artificial horizon of sweet oil in a tea-saucer.
tea-scent n. ‘a European fern, Nephrodium montanum’ ( Cent. Dict.).
tea-scented adj. having a scent like that of tea: applied to a variety of rose (see tea rose n.).
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] > smelling of specific things
rosat?c1425
rosetc1450
rosed1559
musked1576
musky1580
rosya1586
myrrhed1591
muskifiedc1600
roseal1601
olibian1605
roseate1611
honeysuckled1640
myrrhate1659
muscatelline1673
myrrhy1686
muskish1706
thymy1746
rose-scented1759
civeted1785
lily-scented1796
ottoed1810
citron-scented1817
camphory1826
camphoraceous1845
tea-scented1845
frankincensed1860
rose-like1866
sagey1871
camphorous1881
osier-odoured1881
lemony1894
lavendery1896
patchoulied1925
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > of or relating to roses > of types of rose
provincial1604
alabandical1775
tea-scented1845
Banksian1852
wichuraiana1907
floribunda1959
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 207 Coupe de Hebe (tea-scented).
1849 Florist 318 Tea-scented Roses cannot be cultivated with success as border Roses, unless in the extreme south and west of England.
tea-scrub n. a scrub or thicket of tea trees (in Australia, etc.): see tea tree n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > myrtles > [noun] > assemblage of
tea-scrub1852
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. ii. 70 Shady paths,..winding among the ‘tea-scrub’, or skirting the rocky shores [at Sydney].
tea-seed oil n. = tea oil n. (a).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils
oil de baya1398
oil roseta1400
alkitranc1400
laurinec1400
oil of spicac1400
seed oil1400
rape oil1420
nut-oil?c1425
masticine?1440
oil de rose?1440
oil of myrtine?a1450
gingellya1544
rose oil1552
alchitrean1562
oil of spike1577
oil of ben1594
myrtle oil1601
sesamus1601
sampsuchine1616
oil of walnuts1622
rape1641
oil of rhodium1649
rapeseed oil1652
neroli1676
oil of mace1681
spirit of scurvy-grass1682
beech-oil1716
poppy oil1737
castor oil1746
oil of sassafras1753
orange-peel oil1757
wood-oil1759
bergamot1766
sunflower oil1768
Russia oil1773
oil castor1779
tung-yu1788
poppy-seed oil1799
cocoa butter1801
sassafras oil1801
phulwara1805
oil of wine1807
grass oil1827
oil of marjoram1829
cajuput oil1832
essence of mustarda1834
picamar1835
spurge oil1836
oenanthic ether1837
tea oil1837
capnomor1838
cinnamon-oil1838
oil of mustard1838
orange-flower oil1838
resinein1841
mustard oil1844
myrrhol1845
styrol1845
oenanthol1847
shea butter1847
wintergreen1847
gaultheria oil1848
ginger-grass oil.1849
nutmeg oil1849
pine oil1849
peppermint oil1850
cocoa fat1851
orange oil1853
neem oil1856
poonga oil1857
xanthoxylene1857
crab-oil1858
illupi oil1858
Shanghai oil1861
stand oil1862
mustard-seed oil1863
carap oilc1865
cocum butter or oilc1865
Kurung oil1866
muduga oil1866
pichurim oil1866
serpolet1866
sumbul oil1868
sesame oil1870
niger oil1872
summer yellow1872
olibene1873
patchouli oil1875
pilocarpene1876
styrolene1881
tung oil1881
becuiba tallow1884
soy oil1884
tea-seed oil1884
eucalyptus1885
sage oil1888
hop-oil1889
cotton-seed oil1891
lemon oil1896
palmarosa oil1897
illipe butter1904
hydnocarpus oil1905
tung1911
niger seed oil1917
sun oil1937
vanaspati1949
fennel oil-
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 746/2 Tea-seed oil is a commercial product in China, where it is used for food, lighting, and soap-making.
1951 E. David French Country Cooking 220 Tea seed oil. Much lighter than olive oil and preferred by many for salads.
tea-service n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1809 A. Burr Private Jrnl. (1903) I. 253 A splendid tea service of silver and two cups.
1838 J. Romilly Diary 26 Feb. in Cambridge Diary (1967) 140 Treated myself with a new tea Service for the occasion (cost 5½ Gnas).
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tea-service, Tea-things.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. i. 6 He gave silver cups when the girls were born, and now bestows tea-services as they get married.
tea-set n. a set of articles used in serving tea at table; a set of tea-things.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1786 J. Wedgwood Let. 30 June in Sel. Lett. (1965) 297 A single line of colour put on..while it is in the clay state..upon our beer mugs, flower-pots, tea and coffee sets..constitutes fayence.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. i. iv. 27 I would rather the best tea-set were broken!
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1838 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 98 Two tea-shines went off with éclat.
tea-ship n. (a) a ship engaged in the tea-trade; (b) a tea-stand with two or more shelves or ‘decks’.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying tea
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
tea-clipper1895
1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. xxvi. 526 The Boston tea-ships had sailed.
1859 Harper's Mag. Sept. 507/2 You might have seen their sing—ay, and their fine stanch tea-ships too—any day you chose to stroll down South.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 11 Nov. 3/1 The servant went out, and, returning with a three-decker tea-ship, asked whether anything else was required.
tea-shrub n. the common tea-plant (see 3).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > tea-plant > [noun]
tea1663
tea-shrub1704
tea-plant1728
tea tree1760
tea-bush1908
1704 J. Petiver Gazophylacii III. 34 The Thea Shrub is here Figured.
1798 Monthly Mag. July 30/1 The Arabs, to whom we stand indebted for the first accounts of the tea-shrub.
tea-sifter n. (a) a person engaged in sifting tea; (b) an apparatus for sifting tea.
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1871 Morning Post 2 Nov. 7/4 Two silver tea-sifters, having the royal crest engraved upon them.
tea-stall n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tearoom or tea-stall
tearoom1733
tea-stall1889
tea-tent1890
tea-shop1915
tea place1929
tea bar1952
1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea (1900) I. 360 The lower stories were full of tea-stalls and tea-drinkers.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 2/1 The wheeled tea-stall which appears at about four o'clock in all large stations.
1962 R. P. Jhabvala Get Ready for Battle ii. 94 A tea-stall under a tree built on upturned kerosene tins.
tea-stand n. (a) a stand on which cups, saucers, plates, etc. are placed for use at tea; (b) a stall at which tea is sold.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1697 in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1894) App. ii. 592 Your Lord who broke the tea-stand.
tea-stick n. a stick cut from the Australian tea tree.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > stick, twig, or rod > from specific tree or place
hazela1613
turf-stick1843
tea-stick1865
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons lxii You should have a tea-stick, and take them [dogs] by the tail,..and lay on like old gooseberry.
tea-stone n. see quots.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [noun] > rose-quartz
rose quartz1793
tea-stone1848
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > rock crystal > [adjective] > rose quartz
tea-stone1848
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [adjective] > quartz > other crystalline quartzes
amethystine1670
tea-stone1848
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > silicates > tectosilicate > [noun] > quartz > crystalline quartzes > others
amethysta1300
citrine1571
morion1748
rose quartz1793
smoky quartz1837
citron1838
tea-stone1848
smoke quartz1872
Cupid's dart1910
1848 S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom II. xiii. 116 Spectacles are cut..from..a variety of rose quartz resembling the cairngorm stone, which the Chinese call cha-tsing, or tea-stone, from its color.
1860 J. Scarth Twelve Years China 5 Shaded..by a huge pair of tea-stone spectacles.
tea-tent n. a tent in which tea is served at an outdoor event.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tearoom or tea-stall
tearoom1733
tea-stall1889
tea-tent1890
tea-shop1915
tea place1929
tea bar1952
1890 Monthly Packet Christmas 188 She..was not sorry to depart to the tea-tent.
1934 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Provinc. Lady in Amer. 6 Go with Robert..to..Agricultural Show... We.. repair to tea-tent... I drink strong tea and eat chudleighs.
1977 Oxf. Diocesan Mag. Oct. 20/2 A tea-tent..apart from affecting the custom of the catering contractors, would give a false picture of the Church as a tea-making machine.
tea-things n. (plural) the articles used for serving tea at table, as teapot, milk-jug, sugar-basin, cups, saucers, plates, etc., together forming a tea-set n. or tea-service n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1747 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 192 You will think I have removed my philosophy from Windsor with my tea-things hither.
1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxxi. 246 Dorothy was seated behind the urn and tea-things at a large table.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > sugar-tongs
sugar-tongs1708
tongs1713
tea-tongs1738
sugar nippers1790
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 200 Lady Smart mistakes the Tea-tongs for the Spoon.
1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. May 63 Bended up in the figure of a pair of tea-tongs.
tea-towel n. = tea-cloth n. (a).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing table utensils > [noun] > equipment for washing or drying table utensils
water-clothOE
neck towel1493
dish-clout1530
mop1683
bottlebrush1685
rinse1738
tea-cloth1770
dishcloth1828
dish-rag1839
tea-towel1863
dish-towel1869
dish-pan1872
lappie1892
dish-mop1897
washing-up cloth1973
1863 S. S. Jones Northumberland 116 The guid lady shakes her lap an' rubs an' scrapes at her gown wi' the tea-towel.
c1909 D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) ii. 55 Beatrice:..You want to wrap it in a damp cloth now. Have you got a cloth? Ernest: What?—a clean tea-towel?
1980 Habitat Catal. 1980/81 111/1 Honeycomb weave teatowel. Pure cotton. Excellent for easy drying up.
tea-treat n. (chiefly in Cornwall) a publicly provided outdoor tea party for children, esp. of a Sunday-school; also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > picnic or packed meal > [noun]
picnic1748
tea-treatc1748
a kettle of fish1791
scram1831
picnic meal1839
box supper1851
basket-meeting1859
picnic lunch1865
picnic tea1869
school feast1879
basket picnic1882
box lunch1889
basket dinner1892
basket lunch1905
packed lunch1906
sack lunch1972
brown-bag lunch1976
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party
school feast1708
tea1738
tea-treatc1748
tea-visit1765
tea-party1778
tea-drinking1781
thé1788
tea junketing1820
tea-night1823
tea-shine1838
tea-fight1849
tea soirée1850
muffin-worry1859
kettledrum1861
muffin-fight1876
pink tea1883
bun-worry1889
train tea1895
tea-meeting1897
bun-struggle1899
American tea1915
silver tea1921
bunfight1928
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > tea- or coffee-party > for school-children
school feast1708
tea-treatc1748
c1748 S. Richardson Let. in Corr. (1804) III. 317 I thought..you were of the party at the tea-treats.
1898 Mrs. C. P. Penberthy Warp & Woof of Cornish Life 153 Whas our lil tay-trait to a townser?
1898 Mrs. C. P. Penberthy Warp & Woof of Cornish Life 168 Go long up tay-trait field.
1977 West Briton 25 Aug. 22/6 Mr. Ken Roberts..said 150 traditional tea-treat buns would be distributed free to children on the estate.
tea-trolley n. a trolley (sense 2c) for conveying tea-things.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > tea-trolley
dinner wagon1826
tea-wagon1840
wagon table1844
wagon1906
silent butler1912
tea-trolley1937
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1937 A. Thirkell Summer Half x. 275 Mrs. Keith had then bought an excellent tea-trolley with rubber wheels and ball bearings.
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain i. 24 A tea-trolley now stood laden with sandwiches, cakes and buttered buns.
1980 Times 13 Nov. 4/8 The tea trolley is being wheeled back.
tea-urn n. an urn with a tap, placed upon a tea-table, to hold hot water for making tea.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea > utensils
tea-kettle1705
tea-pot1705
maté1717
kitchen1721
tea-kitchen1770
urn1781
tea-urn1786
quart pot1806
tea-maker1814
sukey1823
samovar1830
billy1839
tea-boiler1839
billy-can1885
tea infuser1889
tea-can1890
tea-billy1894
tea ball1895
dixie1900
caddy-spoon1927
drum1931
Teasmade1938
tea machine1963
1786 W. Cowper Let. 24 Dec. (1981) II. 623 You may purchase..a tea-urn.
1808 T. Macgill Trav. I. xviii. 231 The Russian tea-urns..are made of brass..in place of an iron heater, they have long tubes, into which live charcoal is put.
a1948 D. Welch Voice through Cloud (1950) i. 9 This noble room was spoilt by a counter with sizzling tea-urns.
tea-wagon n. † (a) an East Indiaman used to carry cargoes of tea (obsolete); (b) = tea-trolley n. above.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > tea-trolley
dinner wagon1826
tea-wagon1840
wagon table1844
wagon1906
silent butler1912
tea-trolley1937
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying tea
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
tea-clipper1895
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiv. 428 Like a true English ‘tea-wagon’.
1878 Appletons' Jrnl. Jan. 9/2 The good, heavy-bowed, square-countered ‘tea-wagons’, as the sailors call them, meant for cumbrous freight, heavy stowage, and long passages.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Mar. 18/2 A neat Tea Wagon, in walnut finish, fitted with a moveable glass tray top, and mounted on four rubber tired wheels.
1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing ii. 23 The magazine boy..called to the tea-wagon girl: ‘Come and 'ave a look.’
1978 D. Bloodworth Crosstalk xv. 122 Don't tell me the tea wagon's come and gone already?
tea-ware n. vessels, etc. for serving tea, tea-things.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [noun] > equipment for serving tea
tea-stand1697
tea-equipage1709
hand board1721
tea-things1747
tea-board1748
tea-ware1766
tea-tray1773
tea-set1786
tea-ladle1808
tea-service1809
tea-wagon1840
tea-ship1854
cabaret1856
tea-cosy1863
Norwegian kitchen1868
tête-à-tête set1870
tea-stall1889
tea basket1891
tea-pot stand1895
tea cart1934
tea-trolley1937
1766 J. Wedgwood Let. 15 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 42 The Teaware, vases, and all other pretty things I shall let alone until I have the pleasure of seeing you here.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 483 The insides of tea-ware are well washed with a liquid which forms, when fired, a thin coating of glass.
tea-water n. (a) water for making tea; (b) Scottish the beverage tea (= sense 2).
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the world > food and drink > drink > tea > [noun]
chia1601
cha1616
tea1658
tsia1662
scandal-potion1786
scandal-broth1795
tea-water1818
Seric herb1840
split pea1857
scandal-water1873
Rosie Lee1901
chai1919
char1919
Rosie1929
1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer iii. iii Betty, set on the Tea-water.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 18 Breakfast wi' us yoursell—ye ken how to manage thae porringers of tea-water.
tea-wine n. a fermented liquor made from tea (see quot.).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > others
cherry-winea1665
morello winea1665
strawberry winea1665
orange wine1675
raspberry wine1676
birch-wine1681
grape-wine1718
cowslip wine1723
barley wine1728
ginger wine1734
gooseberry1766
raspberry1768
mead-wine1794
parsnip wine1830
milk-wine1837
tea-wine1892
1892 J. M. Walsh Tea 203 A pleasing drink is also prepared by treating the ordinary infusion with a little yeast and sugar, a tea-wine being produced from it.
tea-wrap n. a wrap worn by women and girls at tea (rare).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > wrap > types of
amicea1382
amytc1384
manto1679
manta1697
palla1706
wrapper1799
wrapa1817
Afghan1850
crossover1868
tea-wrap1909
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. ii. 176 My aunt too, looking bright and pretty, in a blue-patterned tea-wrap.
tea yellows n. a deficiency disease of the tea-plant, esp. in Africa, caused by a lack of sulphur and indicated by small, chlorotic leaves, and the eventual death of the bush.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > deficiency diseases > associated with crop or food plants
greenback1926
grey leaf1928
marsh spot1931
tea yellows1931
speckled yellows1938
grey speck1947
1931 Ann. Rep. Dept. Agric. Nyasaland 1930 32 Tea Yellows—Investigations into this disease have been carried out.
1958 T. Eden Tea ix. 91 Tea yellows, caused by sulphur deficiency, is less severe under shade trees than in open situations.
Derivatives
ˈteaey adj. having the characteristic properties of tea.Apparently an isolated use.
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1890 Spectator 3 May We believe Indian tea has conquered because it is the most tea-ey of teas.
ˈteaish adj. resembling or relating to tea.
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1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 572 The teaish propensities of her inamorato.
1904 E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet vii. 134 The meal..was not exactly tea. Let us call it a tea-ish meal.
ˈteaism n. addiction to tea.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking tea > addiction to
teaism1904
1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. ix. 14 Excessive teaism, coffeeism, etc.,..to the prejudice of appetite for plain, wholesome nutritives,..jeopard the highest maturation of powers.
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tea egg n. (in Chinese cookery) a hard-boiled egg slowly cooked with its shell cracked in a mixture of tea and other flavourings, producing a marbled pattern on the surface of the egg when the shell is removed.
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1920 Jrnl. Home Econ. 12 291 One of the forms of eggs of which Chinese people are very fond is the so-called ‘tea eggs’. To prepare these, fresh hen's eggs are hard boiled, the shells cracked, and the eggs then cooked for hours in a mixture of tea infusion, salt, spice, and soy bean sauce.
2002 Time Out N.Y. 31 Oct. 30/1 This lady apparently kept the pantry stocked with black-bean tapenade and quail tea eggs.
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tea light n. a small, squat candle encased in a circular cup of thin metal, which anchors the wick and contains the wax.
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1983 Washington Post 3 May b2 (advt.) Hurricane lamp with a ceramic base. Select from assorted floral designs, tea light included.
2003 Church Times 12 Dec. 12/3 When the children come to the altar rail for a blessing they are given tea lights which are then lit round the font.
2006 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 8 Jan. 55 To meet her demand for perpetual bubbling coffee, she uses a tealight candle to keep the brew constantly on the boil.
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teav.
colloquial.
1. transitive. To supply or regale with tea; to entertain at tea; to give a tea to.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > serving tea or coffee > [verb (transitive)] > entertain at tea or coffee
tea1812
coffee1868
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > entertain with food > entertain with specific meal
dinec1475
sup1609
supper1622
breakfast1793
dinner1822
bedinner1837
tea1844
tiffin1866
lunch1892
1812 R. Wilson Private Diary (1861) I. 250 General Tormanssow fed us, and the duke tea'd; so the day passed well.
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xxxvi. 16 I breakfast, tea, and sup my lodgers.
1888 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 386 We tea the local body on Wednesday.
2. intransitive. To drink tea; esp. to take the meal called tea, to have one's tea.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink tea
tea1810
1810 G. Betts Diary in K. F. Doughty Betts of Wortham (1912) xxix. 286 Mr. Lee..came and tea-ed here.
1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 551 'Twas moved to proceed To the hall of debate, where my Lady had ‘tea'd!’
1863–5 J. Thomson Sunday at Hampstead iv. i Eight of us promised to meet here And tea together at five.
1892 F. J. Furnivall Hoccleve's Minor Poems Introd. 47 We dined on the bank opposite Hampton Court and teaed on Tatham's island.
Derivatives
ˈteaing n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking tea
tea-drinking1675
teaing1845
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [adjective] > drinking tea
tea-drinking1675
teaing1845
1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 7 504 During my ‘teaing’ I was amused with the conversation of my companions.
1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey xi Picnics up the river..and innumerable teaings on shore.
1893 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour (rev. ed.) xx. 94 Staying guests have the advantage over mere dining or teaing ones, inasmuch as they cannot well be talked over..as those who go away are.
ˈteaer n. one who takes tea, or attends a tea-meeting.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating meals > [noun] > eater of light meal
collationer1786
teaer1892
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > attending or giving party > [noun] > one who attends or gives party > tea-party
teaer1892
tea partier1964
1892 Sat. Rev. 30 July 141/2 But 270 Congregational teaers would surely require more than eight quarts of milk?
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