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Tea-cup. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Tea-cup A cup from which tea is drunk: usually of small or moderate size, with a handle.

1 1700.  Congreve, Way of World, IV. xi. Let Mahometan Fools … be damned over Tea-Cups and Coffee.

2 1714.  Addison, Lover, No. 10, ¶ 4. The fashion of the teacup … has run through a wonderful variety of colour, shape, and size.

3 1770.  Goldsm., Des. Vill., 235. While broken tea-cups … Ranged o’er the chimney, glistened in a row.

4 1884.  H. P. Spofford, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 889/1. In a sort of Oriental divination they always turned their ten-cups,… after the tea-drinking which they loved.

5 Mod.  The subject has been mentioned ‘over the tea-cups’ [i.e., unofficially; speaking of the establishment of a public institution].

6   b.  As much as a tea-cup contains, a teacupful.

7 1757.  Pultney, in Phil. Trans., L. 81. She took something more than a tea-cup of the infusion.

8   c.  Phr. A storm in a tea-cup: a great commotion in a circumscribed circle, or about a matter of small or only local importance: see STORM.

9 1872.  Black, Adv. Phaeton, xix. She has raised a storm in a tea-cup by her … unwarranted assault.

10 1884.  Pall Mall G., 19 Sept., 4/1. M. Renan’s visit … to his birthplace in Brittany has raised a storm in the clerical teacup.

11 1900.  G. C. Brodrick, Mem. & Impr., 360. Here the storm in the Oxford tea-cup raged as furiously as in the open sea.

12   d.  attrib. Tea-cup-and-saucer comedy, comedy of a mild and ‘proper’ character.

13 1830.  Tennyson, Talking Oak, xvi. Beauties, that were born In teacup-times of hood and hoop, Or while the patch was worn.

14 1895.  Athenæum, 8 June, 748/2. ‘Tea-cup-and-saucer comedy’ … was the invention of Thomas Purnell.

15 1898.  Westm. Gaz., 30 March, 2/3. A little too much like … the tea-cup business of Alice in Wonderland.

16 1903.  Daily Chron., 23 Sept., 3/3. Young girls … find a gentle interest in her mild heroics of tea-cup-and-saucer comedy.

17   Hence Teacupful, as much as a tea-cup will contain. (Pl. teacupfuls; erron. tea-cups full.)

18 1705.  Phil. Trans., XXV. 1790. [I] took about a Tea-cupful.

19 1789.  Pilkington, View Derby., I. viii. 355. The dose 2 tea-cups full or more.

20 1838.  Q. Jrnl. Agric., IX. 290. A salt-spoonful of salt and a tea-cupful of warm water.

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