Tea vs Tippy - What's the difference?
tea | tippy |
(uncountable) The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, .
(uncountable) The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (countable) A variety of the tea plant.
(uncountable) By extension, any drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.
A cup of any one of these drinks, often with a small amount of milk or cream added and sweetened with sugar or honey.
(countable, Southern US) A glass of iced tea, typically served with ice cubes and sometimes with a slice or wedge of lemon.
(uncountable, UK) A light meal eaten mid-afternoon, typically with tea.
(uncountable, New Zealand, British, Australia) The main evening meal, irrespective of whether tea is drunk with it.
(cricket) The break in play between the second]] and [[third session, third sessions.
(slang, dated) Marijuana.
* 1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010, page 103:
* 1946 , (Mezz Mezzrow) and (Bernard Wolfe), Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, page 74:
* 1947 , (William Burroughs), letter, 11 Mar 1947:
To drink tea.
To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
* 1877 , The Bicycling Times and Tourist's Gazette (page 38)
(obsolete, colloquial, or, slang) Fashionable, tip-top.
* 1806 , Kitty Crotchet, “The Bootees—A New Song”, in The Port Folio , v 2, Philadelphia: John Watts, p 76:
In the height of fashion, excellent, cool.
* 1802 , “Ladies Literature”, in New England Quarterly Magazine , v 2, Boston, p 225:
* 1806 , The Port Folio , v 2, Philadelphia: John Watts, p 143:
* 1808 , Thomas Morton, “A Cure for the Heart Ache”, in The British Theatre; or, A Collection of Plays , London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, p 10:
* 1845 , “The Frog and the Fox”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist , London: Henry Colburn, p 371:
(colloquial, or, slang) Clever, neat, smart.
* 1863 [1910], Early Letters of Marcus Dods, D.D. , p 344:
Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.
* 1886 , T.C. Owen, The Tea Planter's Manual , Colombo: A.M. & J. Ferguson, pp 49–50:
(obsolete, colloquial, or, slang) A dandy.
* 1798 , “Whim?ical Peculiarities of Expre??ion”, in The Monthly Magazine and British Register , v 6, London: R. Phillips, p 173:
As nouns the difference between tea and tippy
is that tea is the dried leaves or buds of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis while tippy is a dandy.As a verb tea
is to drink tea.As a proper noun Tea
is a city in South Dakota.As an initialism TEA
is training and employment agency.As an adjective tippy is
fashionable, tip-top.tea
English
(wikipedia tea)Noun
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- So they were evidence. Evidence of what? That a man occasionally smoked a stick of tea , a man who looked as if any touch of the exotic would appeal to him. On the other hand lots of tough guys smoked marijuana .
- Tea puts a musician in a real masterly sphere, and that's why so many jazzmen have used it.
- Here in Texas possession of tea is a felony calling for 2 years.
Usage notes
In many places tea is assumed to mean hot tea, while in the southern United States, it is assumed to mean iced tea.Synonyms
* (dried leaves of tea plant) tea leaves * (drink made by infusing parts of various other plants) herb tea, herbal tea, infusion, tisaneDerived terms
* afternoon tea * all the tea in China * bed tea * black tea * builder's tea * camomile tea * cream tea * cup of tea * Devonshire tea * fruit tea * green tea * herb tea, herbal tea * herbal tea * high tea * iced tea * Long Island iced tea * morning tea * mint tea * red tea * rooibos tea * sugar honey ice tea * tea and toaster * teabag * teaberry * teaboy * tea break * tea caddy * teacake * tea cart * tea ceremony * tea cloth * tea cosy * teacup * teahouse, tea house * teakettle * tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang) * tea leaves * tea pad * tea party * tea plant * teapot * tea room * tea service * teaspoon * tea strainer * teatime * tea towel * tea tray * tea trolley * tea urn * tea wagon * white teaVerb
(en verb)- The wind was high and the hills ditto, and both being against us we were late in reaching Hitchin (30 from Cambridge), so giving up the idea of reaching Oxford we toiled on through Luton, on to Dunstable (47), where we teaed moderately
References
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----tippy
English
Etymology 1
1790, .Adjective
(en adjective)- Of all the gay beaux, / That sport their smart cloathes, / There's none that my fancy can please, / With their Spencers'' or ''Crops'', / Or woolly ''Foretops'', / Like ''Bob'' with his ''Tippy Bootees .
- I under?tand, however, that there is a di?tinction between the?e names in the city and St. James's; in the latter place you may find fa?hion in the characters of the ton'', the ''ta?te'', the ''etiquette'', &c. in the city they are all the ''tippy'' , the ''thing'', the ''?ort'', &c. and pretty ''things'' they are, Heaven knowns! [sic]—with a ''?ort'' of a cane, which being twelve inches long, one blow of an Iri?hman's ?hillalagh would drive ''twelve yards away.
- The wig's the thing, the wig, the wig, / Be of the ton a natty sprig, / The thing, the tippy and the twig, / Nor heed who are the truly wise, / For after all, in vulgar eyes, / The wisdom's in the wig.
- Rent! you boor!—That, for Sir Hubert!—[Snapping his Fingers .] Ah! Nabob's servants be the tippy —Every thing be done by them so genteely.
- As neither of them said “No,” he opened the will, and found that the old lady had left all the accumulated scrapings of a long life of industry to her son William, to aid his “great abilities” in promoting the honour of the family. [. . .] “That'll do, Smugs,” said Bill, and then turning to his brothers, he observed. “Just the tippy , for I was cleaned out. [. . .]”
- She read Renan's Vie de Jésus , and I am now going to lend her the antidote—a tippy little bit of criticism by Pressensé.
- Before rolling some planters are in the habit of sifting the leaf through a No. 4 sieve, and manufacturing the small leaf and tips that fall through separately. This will add to the appearance of the tea, by making it more tippy , but unless fancy teas are being made will not pay for the time and trouble incurred.
Noun
(tippies)- Is his dre?s, as we may pre?ume it will be, elegant; exhibiting no articles of apparel but ?uch as are “All the rage?” he is “Quite the tippy .”''