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tea-cup

tea-cup is the alternative form of teacup.

Meaning of teacup

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.
    • "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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182
  2. A unit of measure; a teacupful.

See all 3 meanings of teacup

Forms of tea-cup

pluraltea-cups

Questions about tea-cup

What is tea-cup the alternative form of?
Tea-cup is the alternative form of teacup.

Words near tea-cup in the dictionary

  1. tea-chest character
  2. tea-clipper
  3. tea-clippers
  4. tea-cosies
  5. tea-cosy
  6. tea-cup
  7. tea-cups
  8. tea-dress
  9. tea-dresses
  10. tea-gown
  11. tea-gowned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea-cup (page history and authors); teacup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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