Crossword clues for teacup
teacup
- Dainty crockery item
- Vessel for the Mad Hatter
- Term for a small Yorkie
- Saucer sitter
- Member of the service?
- Vessel (in which there may be a storm?)
- Tempest spot?
- Storm's place, in metaphor
- Something to sip oolong from
- Setting for a tempest?
- Service member?
- Saucer's partner
- Saucer under this?
- Saucer resident?
- Place for Oolong or Pekoe
- Piece of china on a saucer
- Oolong container
- Item on the March Hare's table
- Item on a cart, maybe
- Item in a dish set
- Item at the Mad Hatter's party
- It's part of the service
- Beverage vessel
- Afternoon drink holder
- 0.05-gallon item, perhaps
- Service component
- China piece
- It may be filled with gunpowder
- Spode item
- Service unit
- It sits in a saucer
- Part of a service
- ___ Chihuahua (tiny dog)
- A cup from which tea is drunk
- Bone-china item
- Piece of chinaware
- Kin of a demitasse
- Vessel for hyson
- Earl Grey holder?
- Small vessel raised after master abandons her
- Leaves container that holds a fortune?
- Darjeeling holder?
- Drinking vessel
- China item
- Tempest in a ____
- Service piece
- Service item
- Pekoe holder
- Mad Hatter prop
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teacup \Tea"cup`\, n. A small cup from which to drink tea.
Wiktionary
a. Of an animal, smaller than average. n. 1 A small cup, with a handle, used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set. 2 A unit of measure; a teacupful.
WordNet
n. as much as a teacup will hold [syn: teacupful]
a cup from which tea is drunk
Wikipedia
A teacup is a cup, with or without a handle, generally a small one that may be grasped with the thumb and one or two fingers. In some lands it is custom to raise the last finger on the hand, or "pinkie" when drinking from a tea cup. It is typically made of a ceramic material. It is usually part of a set, composed of a cup and a matching saucer or a trio that includes a small cake or sandwich plate. These in turn may be part of a tea set in combination with a teapot, cream jug, covered sugar bowl and slop bowl en suite. Teacups are often wider and shorter than coffee cups. Cups for morning tea are conventionally larger than cups for afternoon tea.
Better teacups typically are of fine white translucent porcelain and decorated with patterns that may be en suite with extensive dinner services. Some collectors acquire numerous one-of-a-kind cups with matching saucers. Such decorative cabinet cups may be souvenirs of a location, person, or event. Such collectors may also accumulate silver teaspoons with a decorated enamel insert in the handle, with similar themes.
In the culture of China teacups are very small, normally holding no more than 30ml of liquid. They are designed to be used with Yixing teapots or Gaiwan. Countries in the Horn of Africa like Eritrea also use the handleless cups to drink boon which is traditional coffee there. In Russian-speaking cultures and West Asian cultures influenced by the Ottoman Empire tea is often served in a glass held in a separate metal container with a handle, called a zarf. or in Russian a '' podstakannik.
The first small cups specifically made for drinking the beverage tea when it was newly seen in Europe in the 17th century were exported from the Japanese port of Imari or from the Chinese port of Canton. Tea bowls in the Far East did not have handles, and the first European imitations, made at Meissen, were without handles, too. At the turn of the 19th century canns of cylindrical form with handles became a fashionable alternative to bowl-shaped cups.
The handle on a teacup was an explicitly German invention in 1707, by Johann Friedrich Bottger, to solve the freshness issue.
Teacup refers to a small drinking vessel.
It may also refer to:
- Tea bowl
Places:
- Teacup, Texas, a ghost town in Kimble County, Texas
- Teacup Mountain, a mountain in Kimble County near Gentry Creek
- Teacup Lake, see the list of lakes in Beaverhead County, Montana
- Teacup Ski Trail, see the list of trails of Montana
Other uses:
- Teacups, an amusement ride
- Teacup size, an unofficial term for the smallest toy dogs, dwarf cats, and miniature pigs
- Mad Tea Party - Disney version of the Teacups amusement ride, in five of the company's global theme parks
Usage examples of "teacup".
By then, as she sat in the little parlor, a teacup atremble on one knee, a plate just balanced on the other, Betsy was beginning to flag.
I won two hands and lost two, tipped him, and continued on to the backstage area just as the teacup number came to an end.
He went behind the counter that divided the kitchen area from the rest of the apartment and poured water from the pot whistling on the stove into two small, handleless teacups.
With great presence of mind she spread out her cerulean plumes so that the Teacup settled upon them harmlessly, instead of crashing down upon the hard emerald bottom and shattering to bits.
One of The Teacups, to whom I have slightly referred, is an accomplished pianist, and the two Annexes sing very sweetly together,--the American girl having a clear soprano voice, the English girl a mellow contralto.
On the following day Mr. Weevle, who is a handy good-for-nothing kind of young fellow, borrows a needle and thread of Miss Flite and a hammer of his landlord and goes to work devising apologies for window-curtains, and knocking up apologies for shelves, and hanging up his two teacups, milkpot, and crockery sundries on a pennyworth of little hooks, like a shipwrecked sailor making the best of it.
The four old faces then hover over teacups like a company of ghastly cherubim, Mrs. Smallweed perpetually twitching her head and chattering at the trivets and Mr.
Idly, I picked up the halves of the teacup, rewrapped them in newspaper, and tucked them back in the box.
Suppose that our circle of Teacups were made up of specialists,--experts in various departments.
It is the custom at our table to vary the usual talk, by the reading of short papers, in prose or verse, by one or more of The Teacups, as we are in the habit of calling those who make up our company.
I received congratulations on reaching my eightieth birthday, not only from our circle of Teacups, but from friends, near and distant, in large numbers.
The Teacups in the way of reading as well as I do how many lumps of sugar the Professor wants in his tea and how many I want in mine.
IV If the reader thinks that all these talking Teacups came together by mere accident, as people meet at a boarding-house, I may as well tell him at once that he is mistaken.
This is a hint to the reader, who is not expected to be too curious about the individual Teacups constituting our unorganized association.
That made a laugh, in which most of The Teacups, myself included, joined heartily.