TEAPOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teapot mean? 

• TEAPOT (noun)
  The noun TEAPOT has 1 sense:

1. pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle

  Familiarity information: TEAPOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEAPOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("teapot" is a kind of...):

pot (metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid)

Holonyms ("teapot" is a member of...):

tea service; tea set (a set of china or silverware for serving tea)

 Context examples 

Renfield went on without noticing:—"When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

How pretty, to my eyes, did the china cups and bright teapot look, placed on the little round table near the fire!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Ditto, ditto, Mr. Brooke," laughed Meg, looking young and pretty again, as she nodded to him over the teapot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And she loved me so much, and was so captivating (particularly when she made Jip stand on his hind legs for toast, and when she pretended to hold that nose of his against the hot teapot for punishment because he wouldn't), that I felt like a sort of Monster who had got into a Fairy's bower, when I thought of having frightened her, and made her cry.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Then you must prove it by evincing a good appetite; will you fill the teapot while I knit off this needle?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Want of exercise robs them of cheerfulness, and too much devotion to that idol of American women, the teapot, makes them feel as if they were all nerve and no muscle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I weren't a-goin' to fight, so I waited for the food, and did with my 'owl as the wolves, and lions, and tigers does. But, Lor' love yer 'art, now that the old 'ooman has stuck a chunk of her tea-cake in me, an' rinsed me out with her bloomin' old teapot, and I've lit hup, you may scratch my ears for all you're worth, and won't git even a growl out of me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The tray was kept from tumbling down, by a bible; and the tray, if it had tumbled down, would have smashed a quantity of cups and saucers and a teapot that were grouped around the book.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On going down in the morning, I found my aunt musing so profoundly over the breakfast table, with her elbow on the tray, that the contents of the urn had overflowed the teapot and were laying the whole table-cloth under water, when my entrance put her meditations to flight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)