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tea-poy

tea-poy is the alternative form of teapoy.

Meaning of teapoy

Noun

teapoy (plural teapoys)

  1. Originally, a three-legged decorative stand or table; now, especially, one with recesses for holding tea caddies and/or a tea service.
    • “They're like the teapoys in the Lakka Bazar — good material but not polished.”1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 15

Forms of tea-poy

pluraltea-poys

Questions about tea-poy

What is tea-poy the alternative form of?
Tea-poy is the alternative form of teapoy.

Words near tea-poy in the dictionary

  1. tea-light
  2. tea-lights
  3. tea-maker
  4. tea-pot
  5. tea-pots
  6. tea-poy
  7. tea-poys
  8. tea-service
  9. tea-services
  10. tea-set
  11. tea-sets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tea-poy (page history and authors); teapoy (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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