teacup

See also: tea-cup and tea cup

English

Alternative forms

• tea-cup, tea cup

Etymology

From tea +‎ cup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiː.kʌp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

teacup (plural teacups)

1. A small cup, usually with a handle, commonly used for drinking tea; normally sits in a saucer as part of a tea set.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:

     "There isn't wind enough to capsize a tea-cup in a gutter," said Rasmus, and shifted his chew of tobacco with a little black chalk pipe, while he looked around him on all sides.

2. A unit of measure; a teacupful.

Derived terms

• storm in a teacup
• teacup and saucer
• teacup dog
• teacupful
• teacupless
• teacuplike
• teacup puppy
• tempest in a teacup

Translations

cup for drinking tea

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܸܢܓܵܢܵܐ m (pingānā) Belarusian: філіжанка f (filižanka) Bulgarian: чаена чаша f (čaena čaša) Chinese: Cantonese: 茶杯 (caa4 bui1) Mandarin: 茶碗 (zh) (cháwǎn), 茶杯 (zh) (chábēi) Chuvash: чей курки (čej k̬urk̬i) Danish: tekop c Dutch: theekopje (nl) n Estonian: teetass (et) Finnish: teekuppi (fi) French: tasse à thé (fr) f German: Teetasse (de) f Greek: φλιτζάνι τσαγιού n (flitzáni tsagioú) Indonesian: cawan (id) Irish: cupán tae m, taechupán m Japanese: 茶碗 (ja) (ちゃわん, chawan), 湯呑み (ja), 湯飲み (ja) (yunomi) Korean: 찻잔 (ko) (chatjan) Macedonian: чајна шолја f (čajna šolja), шолја за чај f (šolja za čaj) Malay: cawan (ms) Maori: tīkapu, kaputī Mongolian: цайны аяга (cajny ajaga) Norwegian: Bokmål: tekopp m Nynorsk: tekopp m Pennsylvania German: Koppche n Polish: filiżanka (pl) f Portuguese: xícara (pt) f, chávena (pt) f Romanian: ceașcă (ro) f Russian: ча́йная ча́шка f (čájnaja čáška), ча́шка (ru) f (čáška) Swedish: tekopp (sv) Tibetan: ཇ་དཀར (ja dkar) Turkish: çay bardağı (tr), çay fincanı (tr) Vietnamese: chén uống trà

Adjective

teacup (not comparable)

1. Of an animal, smaller than average.

See also

• ass over teacups

Further reading

• teacup on Wikipedia.Wikipedia