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 for brewing and serving 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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tea + pot

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Examples

  • 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

  • The Design of Everyday Things (which I refer to as the teapot and door handle book).

    Apple Matters 2009

  • The Design of Everyday Things (which I refer to as the teapot and door handle book).

    Apple Matters 2009

  • This "tempest in a teapot" is almost exactly like the protests by pro-lifers before the Notre Dame graduation speech.

    White House says speech to students not altered 2009

  • 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.

    Tempest in a Teapot | My[confined]Space 2009

  • And if you buy flowering teas, a glass teapot is of course entirely necessary.

    My Newest Most Precious Tea Items | Tea Derivations 2010

  • It will need drainage so if the teapot is cracked, that is actually better.

    Scenes of Home 2008

  • 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.

    Libertarians and the Old Right « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • 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

  • It will need drainage so if the teapot is cracked, that is actually better.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

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  • John's a little one ;o)

    July 6, 2007

  • UPDATE: According to his profile, he's now a peatot.

    January 9, 2009

  • New update: his profile now says he's a tea-pot, but it still links to this unhyphenated page.

    February 11, 2009

  • But is he short and stout?

    February 11, 2009

  • I think he's more likely to be tall and limber, like a japanese schoolgirl doing a pommel horse routine.

    February 11, 2009