different between cafe vs tearoom
cafe
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kæ?fe?/, /?kæfe?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæfe?/, (dated) /?kæfi/
- (General South African) IPA(key): /kæ?fi?/
- Rhymes: -æfe?, -e?
Noun
cafe (plural cafes)
- Alternative form of café
- (South Africa) A convenience store, originally one that sold coffee and similar basic items.
Derived terms
- pavement cafe
- sidewalk cafe
Translations
Anagrams
- face
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
Etymology
From Spanish café
Noun
cafe
- coffee
Occitan
Alternative forms
- cafè (Languedoc)
Noun
cafe m (plural cafes) (Limousin)
- coffee (beverage)
- café (establishment)
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tearoom
- For Wiktionary’s discussion room, see Wiktionary:Tea room.
English
Etymology
From tea +? room. In reference to a lavatory, probably as a variant of t-room ("toilet room").
Pronunciation
Noun
tearoom (plural tearooms)
- A café which serves tea, usually with light food.
- (euphemistic, slang) A public lavatory, particularly (US gay slang, dated) as a meeting place for homosexual men.
- 1970, Laud Humphreys, Tearoom Trade.
- 1973, Deep Dick, Ch. ii, p. 21:
- I'm deathly afraid of the tearooms though, John. Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.
- 1975, Hard-Headed Dick, Ch. iii, p. 39:
- I had run into Grant in a tea-room—The busy main floor crapper—a few months earlier.
- 2014, A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, p. 216:
- The euphemistically named "tea room" has been used in sexual subcultures among men who have sex with men (MSM) to describe public sex environments, usually public toilets, where men meet other men in sexual interaction... The term itself might be outdated...
- (Australia) A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc.; a break room.
Synonyms
- (cafe): See teahouse
- (public toilet used as a gay meeting place): teahouse, tea house; gingerbread office, cottage (UK); beat (Australia); see also Thesaurus:bathroom
Translations
Further reading
- tearoom at OneLook Dictionary Search
tearoom From the web:
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