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teabagging

4.8

Putting a tea bag in hot water to make tea

noun
/ˈtiˌbæɡɪŋ/

: infusión

She enjoyed making her morning tea by teabagging a fresh bag in hot water.

Examples

For the best taste, remember to avoid teabagging for too long.
And I'm like, it's morphed into can I at least get both of you teabags because it starts off?
After boiling the water, he began teabagging the herbal blend to extract its flavors.

Surface Forms

teabagging singular

teabagings plural

Morphology

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

This sense is a direct gerund/nominalization of the verb 'teabag' (tea + bag) meaning steeping a tea bag.

Etymology

Teabagging originally means putting a tea bag into hot water to 'steep' the leaves and give the drink its flavor, so the noun simply names the process of making tea with a tea bag.