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picky tea

picky tea noun: a meal of miscellaneous snack foods served together.

Noun

picky tea (plural picky teas)

  1. (UK, colloquial) A meal of miscellaneous snack foods served together.
    • My granda would make everything from scratch and it was a wonderful feast of a picky tea. His potatoes deep-fried in batter were amazing.2017, Sarah Millican, How to be Champion
    • I scoff these as a mid-afternoon snack, as part of a 'picky tea' or even just because. Cheese and onion is an iconic flavour combination across the world, mainly because of crisps, but they are just so good together!2023, Jane Dunn, Jane’s Patisserie Everyday

Forms of picky tea

pluralpicky teas

Questions about picky tea

What does picky tea mean?
Picky tea means a meal of miscellaneous snack foods served together.
What part of speech is picky tea?
Picky tea is a noun.
What is the plural of picky tea?
The plural of picky tea is picky teas.

Words near picky tea in the dictionary

  1. picky eaters
  2. picky head
  3. picky heads
  4. picky plate
  5. picky plates
  6. picky tea
  7. picky teas
  8. pickyness
  9. piclamilast
  10. piclonidine
  11. piclopastine

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