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teakettle

English

Alternative forms

  • tea kettle

Etymology

tea +? kettle

Noun

teakettle (plural teakettles)

  1. (dated outside US) A vessel for boiling water for tea.
    This lovely teakettle comes in three designer colors.

Derived terms

  • ass over teakettle
  • teakettler

Related terms

  • tea
  • teapot

Translations

Verb

teakettle (third-person singular simple present teakettles, present participle teakettling, simple past and past participle teakettled)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
    • 2006, Tim Traver, Sippewissett, Or, Life on a Salt Marsh (page 46)
      The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.
    • 2011, Joe Schreiber, The Unholy Cause
      They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.

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teapot

English

Etymology

tea +? pot

Pronunciation

Noun

teapot (plural teapots)

  1. A vessel for brewing and serving tea.

See also

  • (UK) kettle
  • (US) teakettle

Derived terms

  • Russell's teapot
  • Utah teapot

Translations

Anagrams

  • Poteat, aptote, optate

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