TEA BAGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tea-bag (plural tea-bags)

1. Alternative spelling of teabag
   • 1990, Iain Crichton Smith, “The Old Woman, the Baby and Terry”, in Selected Stories, Manchester: Carcanet Press, →ISBN, page 144:

     The old lady had a pile of tea-bags, quarter pounds of butter, cheese, in a bag under the bed.

   • 1991, Frank Ronan, A Picnic in Eden, London: Sceptre, published 1992, →ISBN, book 2, pages 114–115:

     There was a table in the corner with an urn of hot water on it, and a bowl of tea-bags.

   • 1999, Susan Sallis, chapter 7, in The Keys to the Garden, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN, page 105:

     She put a tea-bag into a mug and poured on boiling water. He slid off her suit jacket and she stirred her tea-bag gently and then threw it in the bin.

動詞

tea-bag (third-person singular simple present tea-bags, present participle tea-bagging, simple past and past participle tea-bagged)

1. (chiefly water sports) To dunk into the sea or another body of water
2. Alternative spelling of teabag

アナグラム

• atabeg

別の表記

• tea bag, tea-bag

語源

From tea +‎ bag.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtiːbæɡ/

名詞

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.

派生語

動詞

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. (vulgar, video games) To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead, which is a reference to the above sex act.
   • 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!

3. Of a kite, to have enough lift to repeatedly lift the kite-flyer slightly off the ground, then back down, then back up, etc., in the manner of dunking a teabag into water.

派生語

Further reading

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

アナグラム

• atabeg