Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small cup used with a saucer for serving tea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cup in which tea is served. The tea-cups used in China and Japan have no handles, but some have covers, and are sometimes placed in little saucers of some different material.
- n. A teacupful: as, a tea-cup of flour.
Wiktionary
- n. a small cup, with a handle, used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set
- n. a unit of measure; a teacupful
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small cup from which to drink tea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. as much as a teacup will hold
- n. a cup from which tea is drunk
Examples
“All of your photos are beautiful, but the one in teacup is exceptional.”
“Meanwhile, today's teacup is one sent to me by stwish, made by his friends at Earthbound Arts (I also have a mermaid and a faerie queene -- ornaments -- from there, and both are lovely) And today's tea is the last of the crepe faire from Stash -- the last crepe faire ever, I suspect, as they've discontinued the flavor.”
and the prison priests are decent. my attorney seems sincere.
“Today's teacup is Paraphilias Involving Bunnies, which I have had since just before college.”
they'll never want to see a rake or a plow, and who the deuce can parley-vous a cow?
“The carafe was drunk from similarly, as well as the porcelain teacup and the indelicate glass of wine.”
“So pretty, Myriam ... the presentation in the colorful teacup is wonderful ... love that look!”
“This Kabuki-styled doll approaches surprised guests with a full teacup on a tray; it stops walking when the teacup is taken, waits quietly, bows, then slowly turns around, smoothly scooting away with the empty teacup on its tray ...”
“When a fragile teacup is broken, the shopkeeper gives it and a matching saucer to Petie.”
“Media inflate into full scale storm in teacup, harking back to miner’s strike, which was an entirely different kettle of fish.”
“This tempest in a teacup is just one of the front lines of the Left’s war on anything Bush-related.”
“This tempest in a teacup is just one of the front lines of the Left’s war on anything Bush-related. pimp hand strikes!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teacup’.
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tea phrases /words
everything tea
Abyssinian tea, afternoon t, Algerian tea, Appalachian tea, Arabian tea, Australian tea, Barbary tea, Bencoolen tea, Blue Mountain tea, Botany Bay tea, Bourbon tea, Brazil tea and 294 more...
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Beautiful Compound Words
aftermath, afterthought, butterfly, campfire, colorblind, backhand, crossword, cupcake, dollhouse, drawbridge, dreadlock, dreamscape and 73 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Feather, Mug, Knit, Socks, Snug, Soft, Butter, Nugget, Noodle, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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The Way of Tea
All things tea (lingo, paraphernalia, types).
high tea, meat tea, four o'clock tea, five o'clock tea, tea party, teapoy, tea service, tea set, tea tray, teapot, teakettle, tea urn and 150 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 436 more...
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Rocketeer's Words
defenestrate, shutterbug, antique, periscope, dogma, peculiar, eccentric, banana, apple, pear, cherry, photograph and 189 more...
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Interesting/mellifluous/delicious
insouciant, expiate, apotheosis, insidious, teacup, homunculus, porcine, perestroika, milquetoast, unputdownable, paroxysm, agitprop and 65 more...
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Pretty quirky
whimsy, sparkle, pebble, bubbles, starlight, moonbeam, glade, glow, acorn, demure, oak, oat and 81 more...
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My Cup Runneth Over
Drinking vessels.
cup, teacup, sippy cup, paper cup, beaker, glass, drinking glass, filigree-glass, wineglass, shot glass, tumbler, deepsinker and 50 more...
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permacouture's Words
pony, hobbledehoy, mogwai, freezer, gitanes, shower, glasses, boludo, tequila, tucson, chilaquiles, raleigh and 85 more...
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words
technicolor, amelia, starshine, saucerlike, mermaid, hummingbird, ophelia, fontanelle, lilith, magdalene, tangerine, glamorama and 34 more...
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sunsprouts's Words
dropsy, quell, dreamy, shy, babe, equus, gallop, fox, racecar, corpuscle, lachrymose, mugwump and 38 more...
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compound words
My favourites.
birdbath, gallowglass, lamplight, chokecherry, lightbox, riptide, softshoe, snowshed, bluebird, matchbox, sugarcane, nightcap and 64 more...
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