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thick tea

thick tea noun: high tea or an informal late afternoon or early evening meal, more substantial than afternoon tea.

Noun

thick tea (plural thick teas)

  1. (UK, dated) High tea or an informal late afternoon or early evening meal, more substantial than afternoon tea.
    • Her appearance, her dress, her manners; what they were pleased to term her "stand-offishness"; her shortcomings as a housekeeper; her ignorance in the matter of mending under-linen; her novel-reading and piano- playing — all these had been toothsome morsels, far more enjoyable than the heavy pies...1864, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 12, page 220
    • He can read them in a pleasing manner, to his wife and his family, after a five o'clock thick tea, and the reviews will be enriched with the interesting and improving observation made during the perusals.1868, Shirley Brooks, Sooner Or Later, page 344
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thick, tea.
    • Americans prefer 'pointy,' light- flavored, high-grown teas from Dimbula or Nuwara Eliya; the English like 'thick' teas, with more body, from Uva," he explained.1966, National Geographic - Volume 129, page 471
    • While David made thick tea and then thin tea for his guests, we cleaned up, whispering and washing as quietly as possible to avoid being heard through the panel.2003, Victoria Abbott Riccardi, Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto, →ISBN, page 190

Examples of thick tea in a sentence

  • "It's unnatural in a gell like Marian Ashurst to think so much o' money and What it brings," would be a frequent remark at one of those private Helmingham institutions* known as "thick teas."1869, Wrecked in port, page 42:
  • I sat silent, eating bread-and-butter and drinking good hot thick tea from an even thicker teacup.2006, Colin Wilson, The murder casebook, →ISBN, page 83:
  • Both thick and thin tea is made from green powdered tea (matcha), the difference between them being in the amount of hot water used (gently stirred for thick tea, quickly whisked for thin tea).2010, Kaeko Chiba, Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony, →ISBN:

Forms of thick tea

pluralthick teas

Questions about thick tea

What does thick tea mean?
Thick tea means high tea or an informal late afternoon or early evening meal, more substantial than afternoon tea.
How do you use thick tea in a sentence?
"It's unnatural in a gell like Marian Ashurst to think so much o' money and What it brings," would be a frequent remark at one of those private Helmingham institutions* known as "thick teas."
What part of speech is thick tea?
Thick tea is a noun.
What is the plural of thick tea?
The plural of thick tea is thick teas.

Words near thick tea in the dictionary

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  10. thick wind
  11. thick-and-thin block

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