teabag

See also: tea bag and tea-bag

English

Etymology

tea +‎ bag

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːbæɡ/

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Noun

teabags

teabag (plural teabags)

1. A cloth or paper sachet containing tea leaves or herbal tea, designed to act as an infuser when submerged in hot water.
   • 1980, Walter Stovall, The Minus Pool, page 10:

     He put a spoon and teabag on the saucer and placed it before Mr. McManus.

Alternative forms

• tea bag

Derived terms

• teabag folding
• teabagger
• vampire's teabag, vampire teabag

 

Translations

sachet of tea

• Catalan: bossa de te f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 袋茶 (zh) (dàichá), 茶包 (zh) (chábāo), 袋泡茶 (dàipàochá)

• Danish: tebrev (da) n, tepose (da) c
• Dutch: theezakje (nl) n, theebuiltje (nl) n
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: teepussi (fi)
• French: sachet de thé m, infusette (fr) f
• Georgian: ჩაის პაკეტი (čais ṗaḳeṭi)
• German: Teebeutel (de) m
• Hebrew: תֵּיוֹן (he) m (tiyyón)
• Hungarian: teafilter (hu)
• Icelandic: tepoki
• Irish: mála tae m
• Italian: sacchetto (di tè) m
• Japanese: ティーバッグ (ja) (tībaggu)
• Korean: 티백 (tibaek)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: вреќичка f (vreḱička), кесичка f (kesička)
• Maori: tīpēke
• Mongolian: цайны уут (cajny uut)
• Norman: pouque à thée f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tepose m

  Nynorsk: tepose m

• Persian: چای کیسه‌ای (čây-e kise-i), تی بگ (ti bag)
• Polish: torebka herbaty f
• Portuguese: sachê m
• Russian: ча́йный паке́тик (ru) m (čájnyj pakétik)
• Spanish: bolsita de té f
• Swedish: tepåse (sv) c
• Turkish: poşet çay (tr), sallama çay
• Ukrainian: чайний пакетик m (čajnyj paketyk)
• Welsh: cwdyn te m

Verb

teabag (third-person singular simple present teabags, present participle teabagging, simple past and past participle teabagged)

1. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To lower one’s scrotum into the mouth of another person, or onto the face or head of another person.
2. (video games) To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead.
   • 2007, The Official Xbox Magazine:

     The good news is, you don't have to play 10,000 matches to learn to hold your own against those obnoxious, teabagging 9-year-olds anymore!

Alternative forms

• tea bag, tea-bag

Derived terms

• teabagger
• teabagging

Translations

lower testicles into or onto another person

• Spanish: bajar los huevos

Further reading

• Tea bag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Teabagging on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• atabeg