Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A covered pot with a spout in which tea is steeped and from which it is served.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel in which tea is made, or from which it is poured into tea-cups.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
vessel forbrewing andserving tea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps one positive thing that might emerge from this political tempest in a teapot is a public awareness that scientists are fallible, emotional, and anything but value-free -- just like everyone else.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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The Design of Everyday Things (which I refer to as the teapot and door handle book).
Apple Matters 2009
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The Design of Everyday Things (which I refer to as the teapot and door handle book).
Apple Matters 2009
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This "tempest in a teapot" is almost exactly like the protests by pro-lifers before the Notre Dame graduation speech.
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Just because the teapot is referenced in ancient texts and young children are told all about it every Sunday, does not mean there is a teapot.
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And if you buy flowering teas, a glass teapot is of course entirely necessary.
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It will need drainage so if the teapot is cracked, that is actually better.
Scenes of Home 2008
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I would even go so far as to say that theis tiff-in-a-teapot is more of a marketing device for both the neocon beltway libertarians and the Lewciferians to rally their supporters against the other side — a way to convince their respective followers that indeed they are more pure than the other.
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And I am certain, just as night follows day, that after this tempest in a teapot is gone the blogsters and anti-Obama ranters here will find some other non-event to bray on about. —
Watching for Fallout From the Blagojevich Report - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It will need drainage so if the teapot is cracked, that is actually better.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
oroboros commented on the word teapot
John's a little one ;o)
July 6, 2007
reesetee commented on the word teapot
UPDATE: According to his profile, he's now a peatot.
January 9, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word teapot
New update: his profile now says he's a tea-pot, but it still links to this unhyphenated page.
February 11, 2009
bilby commented on the word teapot
But is he short and stout?
February 11, 2009
plethora commented on the word teapot
I think he's more likely to be tall and limber, like a japanese schoolgirl doing a pommel horse routine.
February 11, 2009