Definitions for teacup

teacup tea·cup

Spelling: [tee-kuhp]
IPA: /ˈtiˌkʌp/

Teacup is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in teacup (aceptu).

Definitions for teacup

noun

  1. a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size.
  2. a teacupful.

Idioms

  1. tempest in a teacup / teapot, a disturbance or uproar about little or nothing: Also, storm in a teacup.

Origin of teacup

First recorded in 1690-1700; tea + cup

Examples for teacup

He drank about half a teacup of it, and in an hour was asleep.

"Only women cut their wisdom teeth on a teacup," Miss Gannion observed.

The old lady also stared, her teacup suspended under her nose.

I had not thought of this, and I was afraid for the life of me to withdraw the teacup.

The Rector came towards her at once with a teacup in his hand.

"Of course I shall," she sobbed, while some tears dropped into Geoff's teacup.

Goldblum, himself looking prim with a porcelain saucer and teacup in hand, says he found this “wildly touching.”

She dried the teacup with a worn mildewed hand towel, also embroidered with Lily of the Valley.

Why just one teacup, he wondered, here in the middle of nowhere?

Elle magazine shot an editorial in September, one picture revealing a teacup pig sitting pretty by a mini Tyler Alexandra bag.

Word Value for teacup
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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