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tepoy

tepoy 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 tepoy

pluraltepoys

Questions about tepoy

What is tepoy the alternative form of?
Tepoy is the alternative form of teapoy.

Words near tepoy in the dictionary

  1. teporingo
  2. Teposcolula
  3. Teposcolula Mixtec
  4. tepotinib
  5. tepoxalin
  6. tepoy
  7. tepoys
  8. tepozan
  9. tepozans
  10. Tepozteco
  11. Tepoztecos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tepoy (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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