teacaddy
teacaddy is the alternative form of tea caddy.
Meaning of tea caddy
Noun
tea caddy (plural tea caddies)
- A box, jar, pot, or tin used to store tea leaves.
- Mrs. Hone would have owned all the equipage that most upper-middle-class households needed to hold a proper tea, including a tea table (or teapoy), a tray, a teapot, creamer, sugar bowl with tongs, cups, saucers, tea caddy, teaspoons, and likely a tea urn, slop bowl, strainer, and spoon tray. While...2019, Nancy E. Davis, “Afong Moy Presents Chinese Objects for the Home”, in The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (The Show), page 107
Forms of teacaddy
| plural | teacaddies |
|---|
Questions about teacaddy
- What is teacaddy the alternative form of?
- Teacaddy is the alternative form of tea caddy.
Words near teacaddy in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: teacaddy (page history and authors); tea caddy (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “teacaddy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/teacaddy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.