teakettle

See also: tea-kettle and tea kettle

English

Alternative forms

• tea kettle
• tea-kettle

Etymology

tea +‎ kettle

Noun

teakettle (plural teakettles)

1. (dated outside US) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
   • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:

     Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.

   • 1869–1870, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter VIII, in An Old-Fashioned Girl, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1870, →OCLC:

     “Such a cunning teakettle and saucepan, and a tete-a-tete set, and lots of good things to eat. Do have toast for tea, Polly, and let me make it with the new toasting fork; it's such fun to play cook.”

Derived terms

• ass over teakettle
• teakettle groom
• teakettler

Related terms

• tea
• teapot

Descendants

• → Jersey Norman: ticl'ye
• → Welsh: tegell

Translations

a vessel for boiling water for tea

• Afrikaans: ketel
• Albanian: çajnik (sq), ibrik (sq) m
• Arabic: غَلَّايَة f (ḡallāya)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܦܬܵܦܵܐ f (aptāpā), ܟ̰ܵܝܕܵܢ f (čāydān)

• Armenian: թեյաման (hy) (tʻeyaman)
• Azerbaijani: çaydan, çaynik
• Bashkir: сәйнүк (səynük)
• Belarusian: ча́йнік m (čájnik), гарба́тнік m (harbátnik)
• Bengali: কেটলি (bn) (keṭli)
• Bulgarian: ча́йник (bg) m (čájnik)
• Burmese: ရေနွေးအိုး (my) (re-nwe:ui:)
• Catalan: bullidor m, tetera f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 水壺／水壶 (seoi² wu^4-2)

  Mandarin: 水壺／水壶 (zh) (shuǐhú), 壺／壶 (zh) (hú)

• Crimean Tatar: çaynik
• Czech: konvice (cs) f
• Danish: vandkoger c
• Dutch: waterkoker (nl) m
• Estonian: teekann (et)
• Faroese: ketil m
• Finnish: teepannu (fi), vesipannu (fi)
• French: bouilloire (fr) m, bouilloire à thé (fr) m
• Georgian: ჩაიდანი (čaidani)
• German: Kessel (de) m, Teekessel (de) m
• Greek: βραστήρας (el) m (vrastíras)
• Hausa: sàhānī̀ m
• Hebrew: קוּמְקוּם (he) m (kumkum)
• Hindi: केतली (hi) f (ketlī)
• Hungarian: teáskanna (hu)
• Icelandic: ketill (is) m
• Italian: teiera (it) f, bollitore (it) m
• Japanese: 薬缶 (ja) (やかん, yakan), 湯わかし (ゆわかし, yuwakashi)
• Kazakh: шәйнек (kk) (şäinek)
• Khmer: កំសៀវ (km) (kɑmsiəw), ប៉ាន់តែ (pan tae)
• Korean: 주전자(酒煎子) (ko) (jujeonja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چاپەز (çapez)

• Kyrgyz: чайнек (ky) (caynek)
• Lao: ກາຕົ້ມນ້ຳ (kā tom nam), ໝໍ້ກາ (lo) (mǭ kā)
• Latvian: tējkanna f
• Lithuanian: arbatinukas m
• Macedonian: ча́јник m (čájnik), ко́тле n (kótle)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: данх (mn) (danx)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vannkoker m

• Old Frisian: sthitil
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: کِتْری (fa) (ketri)

• Polish: czajnik (pl) m, imbryk (pl) m, sagan (pl) m (regional)
• Portuguese: chaleira (pt) f
• Romanian: ceainic (ro) n, ibric (ro) n
• Russian: ча́йник (ru) m (čájnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: coire m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ча̑јнӣк m

  Roman: čȃjnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: čajník (sk) m, čajová kanvica f
• Slovene: čajnik m
• Sotho: ketlele
• Spanish: tetera (es) f
• Swedish: vattenkokare (sv) c
• Tagalog: takuri
• Tajik: чойник (tg) (čoynik)
• Tatar: чәйнек (tt) (çäynek)
• Thai: กาน้ำ (th) (gaa-náam), กา (th) (gaa), กาต้มน้ำ
• Turkish: çaydanlık (tr)
• Turkmen: çäýnek
• Ukrainian: ча́йник m (čájnyk)
• Urdu: کیتْلی f (ketlī)
• Uyghur: چەينەك (cheynek)
• Uzbek: choydish (uz), qumg'on (uz), choynak (uz)
• Vietnamese: ấm đun nước
• Volapük: tiedaskal (vo)
• Welsh: tegell m
• West Frisian: tsjettel
• Yiddish: טשײַניק m (tshaynik)

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.