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😏 A rude prank 🍵 Making tea 🍵 To brew tea

teabagging

2 9.9
Lowering your private parts onto another person's face to insult or humiliate them
  • noun
  • /ˈtiˌbæɡɪŋ/
  • Offensive
: teabagging (vulgar)
  • The comedian told a story about a failed attempt at teabagging during a game night.

Examples

  • No more trash talking, no more teabagging behind your firewalls.

    Noobz (2013)

  • He prank-called his friends and made sure to include some unexpected teabagging as a joke.

  • During the party, they joked about teabagging someone to embarrass them.

Surface Forms

teabagging singular
teabagging plural

Morphology

teabagging = teabag (opaque) = tea + bag + ing

Although morphologically built from 'tea' + 'bag' + -ing, the sexual slang sense is a metaphorical extension not predictable from the literal components.

Etymology

Teabagging as slang comes from comparing a rude sexual act or prank to the simple action of dipping a tea bag in hot water to 'steep' it, and a helpful way to remember it is the image of a small 'bag' being placed and lifted like in tea-making. That's why the word is used for a disrespectful act or a mocking move in games.