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  • verb Present participle of tea.

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Examples

  • And once gathered, the serious business of "teaing" over, the fun of the evening began.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • "Acton and Bourne teaing together like two birds on a bough!" he gasped.

    Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson

  • We married folks do the requisite amount of visiting and teaing-out; and sometimes even rise in our wrath and come out to dinner.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • When Linton wanted him to come and play fives after school, he declined on the ground that he was teaing with Chadwick, of Appleby's.

    The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories 1928

  • Jackson, of Dexter's, was teaing with Linton, and, as was his habit, was giving him a condensed history of his life since he last saw him.

    The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories 1928

  • And I don't say, either, that it doesn't include a lot of dashing up and down Fifth Avenue, and teaing at the Ritz, and meeting magnificent Missions, and being cooed over by Lady Millionaires.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • "I found it wandering alone in Sloane Street," Lorraine remarked, "and now we've been teaing together."

    Winding Paths Gertrude Page 1897

  • It is no proper rest for the mind to clatter from town to town in the dust and cinders, and examine galleries and architecture, and be always meeting people and lunching and teaing and dining, and receiving worrying cables and letters.

    Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

  • It is no proper rest for the mind to clatter from town to town in the dust and cinders, and examine galleries and architecture, and be always meeting people and lunching and teaing and dining, and receiving worrying cables and letters.

    Following the Equator, Part 7 Mark Twain 1872

  • March morning, and lurching and twisting through two days of diagonal seas, with people aboard dining and undining, and talking and smoking and cocktailing and hot-scotching and beef-teaing; but when the ship came in sight of the islands, and they began to lift their cedared slopes from the turquoise waters, and to explain their drifted snows as the white walls and white roofs of houses, then the waking sense became the dreaming sense, and the sweet impossibility of that drop through air became the sole reality.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

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