tea bag
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1.0
- noun
- /tiː bæg/
:
bolsa de té
- To make a perfect cup of tea, simply steep a tea bag in hot water for a few minutes.
- tea bag per cup
- steep a tea bag
- add a tea bag
Now light the top of the tea bag on fire.
- Now light the top of the tea bag on fire.
- Coffee grounds, coffee filters and non nylon tea bags.
- So much milk, not enough squeezes of the tea bag.
- And you steep the mint in with the tea bags.
- You can get thyme tea bags, but I really like doing thyme as an herbal tea.
- It's literally tea, like not in a tea bag.
- That's actually not tea at all, but it comes in a bag that resembles a tea bag, so it's close enough, right?
- I am a hot tea drinker, not a coffee drinker, so I love when sets have a hot water kettle and some tea bags.
Examples
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Merry found some tea bags way up in a cabinet, and we made a jug of tea.
Fiction book (1990) -
I can't drink tea made from cheap tea bags because it doesn't taste like tea.
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Usually with a cup of hot water and a tea bag.
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Just bring me a cup of hot water and the tea bag.
Fiction book (1993) -
I usually carry my own tea bags.
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"Just bring me a cup, a pot of hot water, and any tea bag you can find in the kitchen," he said.
Fiction book (1993) -
This is a tea bag and inside the tea bag we have this tea dust and this tea dust is super low quality.
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If you finished your tea, they'd give you more hot water to go with the same tea bag.
Fiction book (2000) -
Just boil a pot of water and add several tea bags, then drop in your fabric.
Blog text (1) -
Now she poured the steaming water, then bobbed one tea bag between two cups.
Fiction book (1998)
How Convenient
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tea' (the drink) with 'bag' (a container): it denotes a bag containing tea for making tea. This compositional meaning follows a common, cross-linguistic noun+noun pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Tea bag comes from a simple idea: tea sellers put tea leaves inside a small cloth bag so people could make tea without loose leaves. That's why a tea bag today is a small bag you put in hot water to make one cup of tea.