单词 | tea-garden |
释义 | tea-gardenn. 1. A garden or open-air enclosure, connected with a house of entertainment, where tea and other refreshments are served. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > café or tearoom tearoom1733 café1802 tea-garden1802 estaminet1814 cafeteria1839 coffee palace1879 coffee parlour1894 zinc1914 caff1931 pull-in1938 transport café1938 pantry1948 relais1957 kayf1962 izakaya1987 1802 J. Feltham Picture of London 370 Shepherd and Shepherdess Tea Gardens, &c., City Road... Much frequented in the summer time by tea parties, &c. 1829 ‘Juan de Vega’ Jrnl. Tour (1847) ix. 81 A charge of three-pence is demanded on entering the delightful ‘Tea Gardens’. 1900 Daily News 12 Nov. 6/3 Tea garden resorts..have entirely vanished. 2. A plantation in which tea-plants are grown. (Cf. hop-garden n.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > tea > tea plantation tea-garden1882 1882 Spons' Encycl. Manuf. v. 1994 There is scarcely a tea-garden but what is mainly filled with hybrids..between these two species [Thea chinensis and T. assamica]. 1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 98/2 Undulating well-watered tracts..are the most valuable for tea-gardens. Derivatives ˈtea-ˌgardened adj. having a tea-garden. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [adjective] > having gardens > specifically a tea-garden tea-gardened1843 1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. vii. 148 What a prim,..green-railinged, tea-gardened, gravel-walked place would it have been. ˈtea-ˌgardener n. the keeper of, or a worker in, a tea-garden. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun] > types of gardener arborist1578 nursery gardener1629 nurseryman1629 raiser1707 kitchen gardener1709 market gardener1727 curator1761 landscape-gardenera1763 plannerc1770 mail-gardener1798 landscape architect1863 trucker1868 plantsman1881 weekend gardener1884 groundsman1886 rock gardener1886 tea-gardener1903 landscapist1936 wild gardener1966 1903 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 6/7 Miura, a [Japanese] tea gardener, assures his young and pretty wife Ohana that she is unsightly. ˈtea-ˌgardeny adj. colloquial resembling, or having the style of, a tea-garden (sense 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial eathlyc890 lighteOE littleOE small?c1225 singlec1449 easy1474 triflous1509 naughty1526 slender1530 slight1548 shrimpish1549 slipper1567 truanta1572 toyous1581 trivious1583 mean1585 silly1587 nicea1594 puny?1594 puisne1598 pusill1599 whindling1601 sapless1602 non-significant1603 poor1603 unsignificant1603 flea-bite1605 perishing1605 lank1607 weightless1610 fonda1616 penny farthing1615 triviala1616 unweighty1621 transitory1637 twattling1651 inconsiderate1655 unserious1655 nugal1656 small drink1656 slighty1662 minute1668 paddling1679 snitling1682 retail1697 Lilliputian1726 vain1731 rattletrap1760 peppercornish1762 peppercorn1791 underling1804 venial1806 lightweight1809 floccinaucical1826 small-bore1833 minified1837 trantlum1838 piffling1848 tea-tabular1855 potty1860 whipping-snapping1861 tea-gardeny1862 quiddling1863 twaddling1863 fidgeting1865 penny ante1865 feather-weighted1870 jerkwater1877 midget1879 mimsy1880 shirttail1881 two-by-four1885 footle1894 skittery1905 footery1929 Mickey Mouse1931 chickenshit1934 minoritized1945 marginal1952 marginalized1961 tea-party1961 little league1962 marginalizing1977 minnowy1991 1862 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 368 The public gardens, small and insignificant enough, indeed a little tea-gardeny. 1879 Dickens's Dict. Thames (1880) 120/2 There is little..of the ancient abbey to be found among the present tea-gardeny ruins. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1802 |
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