teabagn.
/ˈtiːbaɡ/, U.S. /ˈtiˌbæɡ/, Canadian English /ˈtiːˌbæɡ/ 1. A small, porous, sealed sachet or packet, now typically made from thin filter paper or bioplastic, containing tea leaves or powdered tea or (in later use) the leaves, fruits, or flowers of other plants, on to which boiling water is poured in order to make a drink.The earliest teabags were made from fabric. Heat-sealed paper teabags were first manufactured in the 1930s.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > preparation of tea
tea-making1826
teabag1886
drum-up1919
boil1940
brew-up1944
1886 Coffee Public-house News May 60/1 Place the tea in a muslin or other bag large enough to give ample space for the swelling of the tea-leaves... When a large and strong tea-bag is required, the best material to use is flax scrym.
1923 National Druggist Jan. 33/2 The customer being served dips the tea bag in a cup of boiling water until the infusion reaches what the customer considers the proper strength.
1958 Sunday Times 30 Mar. 12/3 The sale of tea-bags is creeping up.
1977 Lancashire Life Feb. 19/1 Those who think that tea is grown in teabags will be pleasantly surprised to find the enormous number of teas blended and packaged in Britain.
2020 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 31 Dec. 18 It doesn't matter whether you are a tea aficionado with a kettle that boils water to exactly the right temperature for green, white and black tea, or someone who dunks a teabag in a cup.
2. Canadian. A bag for carrying provisions; a grocery bag. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > container for provisions
provision basket1770
sandwich case1815
tommy bag1843
lunchbox1862
bait-poke1863
teabag1898
brown bag1947
tiffin-carrier1960
tea-box1972
1898 F. Russell Explor. Far North ix. 161 If a crooked knife, a tea bag, or anything that is in the heap is needed, everything is tumbled about until it is found.
1936 K. Conibear Northland Footprints p. xii Give him a large piece of bannock from your tea-bag.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
teabagv.
/ˈtiːbaɡ/, U.S. /ˈtiˌbæɡ/ 1. transitive. To make teabags by putting (tea, herbs, etc.) into small porous sachets.In quot. 1969 in extended use, with reference to a scientific experiment in which plant roots were placed in cheesecloth bags resembling (and referred to as) teabags.
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1969 R. M. Welch Plasmalemma as Seat of Dual Ion Carrier Mechanisms of Plant Cells (M.S. thesis, Univ. of Calif. Davis) 31 The roots were rinsed several times in distilled water. They were gently blotted on cheesecloth and..samples were weighed out, ‘tea bagged’..and submerged in a..solution.
1985 D. M. Forrest World Tea Trade iii. 54 Teas should be brought in from other countries to be blended and packeted or teabagged for export.
2013 Business Times Singapore (Nexis) 16 Nov. Tea production..is a lot more complex than tea-bagging a bunch of dried leaves.
2. slang.
a. transitive. Of a man: to lower one's testicles repeatedly into the mouth of (one's sexual partner); (also) to suck or lick the testicles of (one's sexual partner). Also occasionally intransitive. Cf. teabagging n. 2a.
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1994 alt.sex.movies 20 Jan. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 25 June 2019) Don't forget that you can teabag your boyfriend as well... I had a brief argument with someone once who claimed that one who dangles his nuts into his partner's mouth does not teabag, but *gets* teabagged. Any other opinions?
1994 alt.fan.don-n-mike 18 Feb. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 15 July 2019) Find a woman..who is adventurous enough to let you teabag her.
2005 D. Lowery Still Crazy iii. 108 She was beneath Yogi and licking her clit and my balls. She tea-bagged me as I pulsed inside Yogi.
b. transitive. Of a man: to push one's testicles or genitals on to the face of (a person), esp. as a non-consensual act. Cf. teabagging n. 2b.Frequently with reference to a non-consensual act carried out when the victim is sleeping or unconscious from drinking alcohol, or in the context of hazing or bullying.
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1998 J. Waters Pecker (transcribed from film) No teabagging, you know the rules! No balls on forehead!.. You teabag a customer one more time, Larry, and Mr. Nellbox will fire your ass!
2012 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 22 June 5 He was accused of indecent assault by ‘tea-bagging’ a fellow officer, applying his testicles to a sleeping man's face and photographing the incident.
c. transitive. In online gaming: to make one's character squat down repeatedly on the head of (an opponent's defeated character) to celebrate the victory and humiliate one's opponent. Cf. teabagging n. 2c.In quot. 2005 the transitivity of the verb is unclear.
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2005 www.urbandictionary.com 10 Apr. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 18 Apr. 2005) Teabag, when after being brutally killed in Halo 2, your opponent squats repeatedly on you, imitating the act of dipping his balls on you. Rather humiliating.
2007 @LexingtonBadger 2 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 3 July 2019) Me and Sunny ruled noob horde faces right off! *cough* Got teabagged by a lvl 70 undead mage, though.
2014 Nottingham Post (Nexis) 25 Sept. 14 I've never been much of an online gamer, reluctant to be tea-bagged by trash-talking American teens on Call Of Duty.
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