Teacup
['tiːkʌp] or [ˈtiˌkʌp]
Definition
(noun.) a cup from which tea is drunk.
(noun.) as much as a teacup will hold.
Typed by Kevin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.
Checker: Peggy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of teacups, foretells that affairs of enjoyment will be attended by you. For a woman to break or see them broken, omens her pleasure and good fortune will be marred by a sudden trouble. To drink wine from one, foretells fortune and pleasure will be combined in the near future.
Checker: Norris
Examples
- No one could accuse them of their teacup war. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Then, we had more tasks until tea, which Mr. Mell drank out of a blue teacup, and I out of a tin pot. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A sweep of her scarf upset her teacup: its contents were shared between the bench and her own satin dress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Why, this coming war in a teacup is the first bit of amusement I have had for years, and yet you grudge it to me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mr. Casaubon had come up to the table, teacup in hand, and was listening. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She looked at him, as he struck the table and made the teacups ring, with a proud colour in her face that was a new change, Mr. Harthouse thought. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But long after that, and long after I had heard the clinking of the teacups and was quite ready, I wanted the resolution to go downstairs. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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