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tea-and-toaster

tea-and-toaster is the alternative spelling of tea and toaster.

Meaning of tea and toaster

Noun

tea and toaster (plural tea and toasters)

  1. (informal) A person, usually elderly and frail, with a diet lacking in nutrition.
    • Again, if Father San Browne, tea and toaster to that quaintesttest of yarnspinners is Padre Don Bruno, […]1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 50

Forms of tea-and-toaster

pluraltea-and-toasters

Questions about tea-and-toaster

What is tea-and-toaster the alternative spelling of?
Tea-and-toaster is the alternative spelling of tea and toaster.

Words near tea-and-toaster in the dictionary

  1. tea wagons
  2. tea whisk
  3. tea whisks
  4. tea yellows
  5. tea'd
  6. tea-and-toaster
  7. tea-and-toasters
  8. tea-bag
  9. tea-bagged
  10. tea-bagging
  11. tea-bags

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