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Definition of Teacup
1. Noun. As much as a teacup will hold.
2. Noun. A cup from which tea is drunk.
Definition of Teacup
1. n. A small cup from which to drink tea.
Definition of Teacup
1. Noun. a small cup, with a handle, used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set ¹
2. Noun. a unit of measure; a teacupful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teacup
1. a cup in which tea is served [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teacup
Literary usage of Teacup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1891)
"... which is evidently a misprint], and connected by a yard of india- rubber tubing
to a copper vessel the size of a teacup. doses of a compound principally ..."
2. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"I wish you were all there to-day, for we are again soused into Florentine weather,
and have scarce had a teacup of rain, which makes us not look so green as ..."
3. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"I wish you were all there to-day, for we are again soused into Florentine weather,
and have scarce had a teacup of rain, which makes us not look so green as ..."
4. A History of Taxation and Taxes in England from the Earliest Times to the by Stephen Dowell (1888)
"The teacup times of hoop and hood.' Peter Motteux, the poet of tea. Lord Hervey
a great tea-drinker. The ' sophisticating of tea.' Tea becomes an ordinary ..."
5. On the diseases, injuries, and malformations of the rectum and anus: With by Thomas John Ashton (1865)
"... at Turin, extracted from the rectum of a man a teacup, which the patient had
himself introduced for the purpose of dilating the bowel. ..."
6. On the diseases, injuries, and malformations of the rectum and anus: With by Thomas John Ashton (1860)
"... at Turin, extracted from the rectum of a man, a teacup, which the patient had
himself introduced, for the purpose of dilating the bowel ..."
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