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ˈtea-ˌdrinker
One who drinks tea, esp. one who drinks it habitually or in large quantities.
1737London Mag. Apr. 186/1 Considering the Number of Tea Drinkers, it [sc. tea-drinking] had done a great deal more Hurt than Dram-Drinking. 1756Hanway Ess. Tea v. 225 The pernicious effects of tea..as it is used by the bulk of tea-drinkers. 1888J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 101/1 The quantity of theine consumed by even the most hardened tea-drinker is exceedingly minute.
So ˈtea-ˌdrinking, (a) vbl. n. the drinking of tea; † also, a social gathering at which tea is provided (obs.); also attrib.; (b) ppl. a. that drinks tea.vbl. n.
1737London Mag. Apr. 183/2 (heading) Of Diet in general, and the bad Effects of Tea-drinking. 1756Hanway Ess. Tea viii. 243 (heading) The Prevalency of Example in Tea-drinking. 1781A. Storer Let. 28 June in 15th Rep. R. Comm. Hist. MSS. App. vi. 508 in Parl. Papers 1897 (C.8551) LI. i. Lady Craven gave a tea-drinking last night. 1793W. B. Stevens Jrnl. 8 July (1965) 91 Walked with Mrs Cutts, etc...to Schobley Mill, a Tea-Drinking Place. 1799M. Edgeworth Lottery i, She learned to love gossiping and tea-drinkings. 1813–14T. Somerville Life & Times (1861) 280 The individuals who met at a tea-drinking party one afternoon.
1675Wycherley Country Wife ii. i, Every raw, peevish, out-of-humoured, affected, dull, *tea-drinking, arithmetical fop, sets up for a wit. 1845A. Strickland Queens Eng. VIII. 310 Catherine of Braganza was certainly the first tea-drinking queen of England. |