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tea and toaster

tea and toaster noun: a person, usually elderly and frail, with a diet lacking in nutrition.

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
    • The patients with inadequate diet admitted to ingesting a diet usually devoid of folate-rich food such as liver, kidney, and vegetables other than potatoes. Several probably were "tea and toasters."1964, B. A. Cooper, L. Lowenstein, “Relative Folate Deficiency of Erythrocytes in Pernicious Anemia and its Correction with Cyanocobalamin,”, in Blood, volume 24, page 505

tea and toaster meaning in Bengali

tea and toaster in Bengali

একজন ব্যক্তি, সাধারণত বৃদ্ধ এবং দুর্বল

Forms of tea and toaster

pluraltea and toasters
alternative formtea-and-toaster

Origin of tea and toaster

From tea and toast + -er.

Questions about tea and toaster

What does tea and toaster mean?
Tea and toaster means a person, usually elderly and frail, with a diet lacking in nutrition.
What is tea and toaster in Bengali?
Tea and toaster in Bengali is একজন ব্যক্তি, সাধারণত বৃদ্ধ এবং দুর্বল. See Tea and toaster meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tea and toaster?
Tea and toaster is a noun.
What is the plural of tea and toaster?
The plural of tea and toaster is tea and toasters.

Words near tea and toaster in the dictionary

  1. te-heeing
  2. te-hees
  3. tea
  4. tea and medals
  5. tea and toast syndrome
  6. tea and toaster
  7. tea and toasters
  8. tea bag
  9. tea bagged
  10. tea bagging
  11. tea bags

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