A.B.C. Cocktail (W3)

A.B.C. - Zutaten

• Amaretto
• Sahnelikör
• Triple Sec

• Mint leaves
• Tawny port
• Rémy Martin Cognac
• Maraschino
• Sugar sirup

Zutaten

• Benedictine
• Armagnac
• Sekt zum Auffüllen
• Angostura-Bitter

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Port ist eine leichter verderbliche Zutat in Cocktails, was oft dazu führt, dass sie unter den Tisch fällt. Allzuviele Rezepte mit Porto sind daher nicht im Umlauf. Einen Klassiker mag ich gern – den "The A.B.C. Cocktail". Manchmal muss man aufpassen bei Zutaten, besonders, wenn in englischsprachigen klassischen Rezepten so etwas wie "Cherry Brandy" angegeben ist. Das kann, je nach Kontext, ein "süßer Kirschlikör" wie "Cherry Heering" sein, oder ein "trockener Kirschlikör" wie "Maraschino", oder sogar ein "Kirschwasser". In diesem Fall hatte ich mich für die erste Variante entschieden, um dem ganzen etwas süßen Bumms zu geben – der Standard ist aber wohl "Maraschino".
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absinthe spoon (W3)

"Absinthe Spoon"

This flat, silver spoon holds an exalted place in the mystery and ritual of absinthe drinking.

With a soft clink, a cube of white sugar is placed delicately on the flat surface of the "absinthe spoon". Purified water drips from a customary fountain or carafe and slowly dissolves the sugar, which falls through the perforations in the silver spoon and into the absinthe-filled glass below. After a few minutes, the emerald green liquid turns a milky white color. When a drinker takes his first sip, the sugar’s sweetness should perfectly counter the absinthe’s bitterness.
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A Brief History of Germany’s Favorite Flaming Punch

How a fiery bowl of booze became a Christmas classic.

BY SAM O'BRIEN DECEMBER 13, 2021
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2. Gather what will serve as your “fire tongs”. Something like an "absinthe spoon" will hover perfectly over your mug. (Achtung! Do not use a standard fork. I tried this and, as the sugar melted away, it disrupted the fork’s balance, causing it to fall off the mug and onto the table, spreading little licks of fire I had to extinguish with a blanket. You could, of course, hold the fork in place, but having your hands this close to the flame is its own risky adventure.) If you don’t have an "absinthe spoon", you can melt your sugar over the pot with a heat-safe grate (such as the one in your toaster oven). Carefully place the sugar cubes atop either the "absinthe spoon" or grate and drizzle with just enough rum to coat. Set the cubes aflame. If the flame dies out before the sugar disappears, pour on more rum.
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"Absinthe-spoon": A perforated or slotted spoon used to dissolve a sugar cube in a glass of absinthe.

American Bar (W3)

Bar, bar, barrista, Barren, Barriere, Barcode, barring, barrier, barrister, barfuss, Bargeld, barer Unsinn, Barometer, Bür, Bürde, gebären, Geburt, Tragbahre, Barium, Baryt, Bariton, -bar, Baron (W1)

• Adebar
• Bären aufbinden
• foobar
• Katie/Katy Bar the Door!
• oxygen bar

Bloody Mary (W3)

BOP (W3)

"BOP" steht für "Broken Orange Pekoe": Ein einfacher Tee, kleinblättrig, gebrochenes Blatt.

BOP1 (W3)

"BOP1" steht für "Broken Orange Pekoe 1": Grober schwarzblättriger Tee, Blattsortierung die vor allem bei Tee aus Sri Lanka eine gewisse Rolle spielt, Bestandteil vieler türkischer Mischungen.

Broken Tea (B) (W3)

Die englische Bezeichnung für "gebrochenen", kleinblättrigen Tee. Fehlt diese Bezeichnung, dann handelt es sich normalerweise um Blatt-Tees.

Cherry Brandy - Rose

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Die hier beschriebene Zutat "Cherry Brandy" wird zur Zeit in 24 Rezepten und 1248 virtuellen Barschränken der Community benutzt.
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Big Ben | Buddha Punch | Chapple-Shake | Cherry Babe | Cherry Bomb | Cherry Dream | Crazy Brandy | Florida Sling | Heartbreaker | KiBa Royal | Loftus Special | Magic Favourites | Marvins Spezial | Pink Flamingo | Purple Bunny | Red Russian | Reno Black | Sex on the Beach 13 | Singapore Sling | Singapore Sling 2 | Sing´let | Spring Brake | Tortuga | Triple M

• Cherry Brandy ® (hybrid tea, Tantau, 1965) - Hybrid Tea / Large-Flowered. Orange blend. Tantau, jun. (1912 - 2006) 1965.
• Cherry Brandy ® (hybrid tea, Evers/Tantau, 1985) - Hybrid Tea / Large-Flowered. Orange blend. Blooms double (17-25 petals). Evers (1940 - 2007) 1985.
• Cherry Brandy 85 ® (hybrid tea, Evers/Tantau, 1985) - Hybrid Tea / Large-Flowered. Orange blend. Blooms double (17-25 petals). Evers (1940 - 2007) 1985.

Cherry Brandy 85

Cherry Brandy 85 ® TANryrandy Tantau (DE) 1985 Teehybride, Beetrose kupfrig-orange dauerblühend fruchtig duftend
"Getränkerose" - eine Art Kirschlikör

Cocktail - Rose

Cocktail (W3)

• Buntheit dieses Mischgetränks
• Der erste Cocktail wurde mit einem Hahnenschwanz und in Anwesenheit eines Franzosen gemixt. Der Franzose rief: "Vive le coqs tail!"
• frz. "coquetier" = "Eierbecher"
• frz. "coquetel" = Name eines Getränks, das seit Jahrhunderten in der Gegend um Bordeaux getrunken wurde.
• "cock-ale" = Name eines Getränks das im 17. und 18Jh in England beliebt war.
• "cock-bread-ale" = eine Mischung von "stale bread, ale, and bitters" die an Kampfhähne (und auch an ihre Halter) gefüttert wurde.
• is so called because it is a drink that will "cock your tail".
• "cocktailings" = Die Reste der Getränkegläser wurden zusammengegossen und billig verkauft.
• Dem Sieger eines Hahnenkampfes wurde zugeprostet, wobei die Drinks eine Anzahl Federn enthielten, die den verbliebenen Federn des Hahnes entsprach.
• Eine weiter Geschichte führt den Begriff auf aztekische Ursprünge zurück
• Auch die benennung nach der ursprünglichen Flaschenform wird erwähnt.

Origine du Cocktail
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En 1779, Miss Betty "Flanagan", propriétaire de la "Vieille Taverne", près de Yorktown, crée un mélange qu'elle nomme "Bracer". Ses clients ne retiennent que la forme en queue de coq "Cock Tail" de la bouteille dans laquelle est présenté le breuvage. Le mot "Cocktail" est devenu le nom courant pour désigner un mélange. Petite cusiosité, dans le film "Cocktail" avec Tom Cruise, le barman à succès est un certain "Flanagan".
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22.08.2001 - Premiere: T. S. Eliot, die Cats und "Die Cocktail Party" (22.08.1949)

• ---1909---shrimp cocktail
• ---1917---Vichyssoise & American cocktail parties
• ---1946---Stork Club (NYC) cocktails
• frozen french fries & Sau Sea shrimp cocktail--1948---

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cocktailian (W3)

CTC (W3)

"CTC" steht für "Chrushing, Tearing, Curling": "Chrushing" = "zermalmen", "Tearing" = "Zerreißen", "Curling" = "Rollen".

Drink (W3)

Dust (Tee) (W3)

"Dust" kommt aus dem Englischen und heißt "Staub". Damit wird die kleinste und letzte Aussiebung bezeichnet, dieser Staub ist nicht nur Abfallprodukt, sondern wird für die Teebeutelproduktion auch extra erzeugt.

Fannings (W3)

Als "Fannings" bezeichnet man die beim Sieben anfallenden kleinen Teilchen des Teeblattes. Mit zunehmender Produktion von Tee-Aufgußbeuteln haben die Fannings an Bedeutung gewonnen.

FFTGFOP (W3)

"FFTGFOP" steht für "First Flush Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe": Ein erstklassiger Blatt-Tee, erste Pflückung, eher zart aber sehr ausgeprägt. Die besten dieser Tees verfügen über das ganze mögliche Geschmacksspektrum.

flagon (W3)

flask (W3)

Flowery Tea (F) (W3)

Das Wort "Flowery" kommt aus dem Englischen und bedeutet, die Blatthülle, die den Tips ihren Namen gibt ist abgefallen, das Blatt beginnt Chlorophyll zu entwickeln ist aber noch zusammengerollt, noch nicht entfaltet.

FOP (W3)

"FOP" steht für "Flowery Orange Pekoe": Ein einfacher Blatt-Tee, zarter als ein "OP".

FTGFOP (W3)

"FTGFOP" steht für "Fine Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe": Ein sehr guter Blatt-Tee, normalerweise noch besser als "TGFOP", noch feineres Aroma.

GFOP (W3)

"GFOP" steht für "Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe": Ein besserer Blatt-Tee noch zarter, feiner als "FOP".

Golden Tea (G) (W3)

Hinweis auf goldbraune Spitzen (Tips). Diese Bezeichnung wird nur bei Darjeeling- und Assam-Blatt-Tees verwendet (Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe).

OP (W3)

"OP" steht für "Orange Pekoe": Ein einfacher Blatt-Tee.

Orange Tea (O) (W3)

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Über die Bedeutung des Begriffs "Orange" ist man sich nicht einig. Dieses Wort soll früher in China für Tee verwendet worden sein, der mit Orangenblüten parfümiert war. Auch soll der Begriff von der klaren orangen Farbe des Tees herrühren. Einer anderen Theorie nach bezieht sich der Begriff auf das niederländische Königshaus "Oranien", wobei »königlich« mit »besonders gut« gleichgesetzt wird. Wir haben uns für "Kõnigliche Blattpflückung" entschieden.
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Pekoe Tea (P) (W3)

Das Wort kommt aus dem Chinesischen und bedeutet "weißer Flaum"; es bezeichnet die sehr jungen, noch zarten Blätter (welche tatsächlich einen weißen Flaum aufweisen). Die Begriffe "Pekoe" und "Orange Pekoe" werden heute als Gradbezeichnung des Tees verwendet. Die sogenannte OP-Pflückung bedeutet, daß von jedem Blatt-Trieb nur die jeweils obersten 3 Blätter mit der Hand gepflückt werden.

Pink Cocktail - Rose

pitcher (W3)

Aesop's Fable of the Crow and the Pitcher

The Celebrated History of an Ingenious — and Thirsty — Bird

By N.S. Gill

Updated August 09, 2016.

One of Aesop's most popular animal stories is this one, of a thirsty and ingenious crow. The text of the fable, from George Fyler Townsend, whose translation of Aesop's Fables has been the standard in English since the 19th Century, is this:

A Crow perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.
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Pitcher

The pitcher went once too often to the well. The dodge was tried once too often, and utterly failed. The same sentiment is proverbial in most European languages.

Pitchers

Little pitchers have long ears. Little folk or children hear what is said when you little think it. The ear of a pitcher is the handle, made in the shape of a man’s ear. The handle of a cream-ewer and of other small jugs is quite out of proportion to the size of the vessel, compared with the handles of large jars.

Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885). Notre Dame de Paris.

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1917.

Book II - VI. The Broken Pitcher
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This childs' bath is made of tin and would have been filled by jugs or pitchers. It's likely it would have been positioned in front of the fire. Baths weren't taken that often, sometimes less than once a week. They took a long time to fill as there was no piped water or taps. The oldest children of the family wouldhave been bathed first and the baby last. The water wouldhave been pretty dirty by then.

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"Pitcher"

A vessel for containing liquids. In the East pitchers were usually carried on the head or shoulders (Gen. 24:15-20; Judg. 7:16, 19; Mark 14:13).

The Crow and the Pitcher

Beer Glass Collections, Mugs, Boots and Pitchers

Are you a collector of beer glasses, coasters, labels, caps or other breweriana ? You'll find here a lot of information aimed to help you to manage your collection.

My name is Julien Gurickx and I live in Belgium. I'm collecting glass beer mugs, boots and pitchers with the name of a beer or a brewery. Actually my collection has pieces from 124 countries spread over the five continents ; it is still in full growth and receives regularly new finds.
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pitcher

"pitcher" (n.1) "earthen jug", c. 1200, from Old French "pichier" (12c.), altered from "bichier", from Medieval Latin "bicarium", probably from Greek "bikos" "earthen vessel" (see "beaker").

"Pitcher-plant" is recorded from 1819; so called for its resemblance.

"pitcher" (n.2) "one who pitches", 1722, agent noun from "pitch" (v.1). Originally of one tossing hay into a wagon, etc.; baseball sense first recorded 1845.

Primary Title: A Seated Peasant Looking Down to the Right, Holding a Pitcher
Maker Name: Cornelis Dusart [Dutch, 1660 - 1704]
Type: Drawings
Medium: Black and red chalk
Date: about 1680s
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum

"PITCHER": A leather jug treated with tar pitch to help it hold its shape.

1811 DICTIONARY OF THE VULGAR TONGUE.

"PITCHER". The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with the mouth downwards: a woman's commodity. She has crack'd her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.

May, Carrie L.

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1 pitcher:

• the player who throws the ball to the batter in baseball — see also relief pitcher

2 pitcher

• US : a container with a lip and handle that is used for holding and pouring out liquids
• US : the amount held by a pitcher
• British : jug

little pitchers have big ears

Little children often overhear things they are not supposed to hear, or things adults do not expect they would notice.

A proverb. * /Be especially careful not to swear in front of little children. Little pitchers have big ears./

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"Little pitchers have big ears" (USA)

This means that children hear more and understand the world around them better than many adults realize.

• "creamer": a small pitcher for serving cream
• "cream pitcher": a small pitcher for serving cream

• "pitcherful": the quantity contained in a pitcher

• "wash-hand stand": furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term

Little Pitchers

Posted by Grant Barrett on July 19, 2014

Did you know reading poetry improves your prose? That includes hip-hop lyrics, too. Also, how linguist can guess where you come from based on how you speak. What do you call someone who picks the chocolate out of the trail mix? Plus, champing at the bit, rutching around, kerfuffles and kerfluffles, pear-shaped, and "little pitchers with big ears".

Little Drink Pitchers

Posted by Grant Barrett on December 8, 2012

When you hear that "little pitchers have big ears", do you think of a "lemonade pitcher" or a "baseball pitcher"? In The Wisdom of Many: Essays On The Proverb, Wolfgang Mieder points out that a lot of people think it refers to a Little League pitcher with big ears sticking out of their baseball cap, though it’s really about a drink pitcher. Still, that’s no excuse for yelling nasty things at Little League games! This is part of a complete episode.

Little Pitchers Have Big Ears

Posted by Grant Barrett on December 8, 2012

When adults are talking sex, money, or other adult topics in the presence of children, one might say little pitchers have big ears, meaning that they don’t want the little ones to hear. The expression has to do with beverage pitchers with handles curved like human ears, not with baseball pitchers or painted pictures. What do you say when you wish you could cover the kids’ ears or make them leave the room? This is part of a complete episode.

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There are, as you say, a number of senses of the word "pitch", and the connections between them are not always easy to trace. To begin with, we can eliminate the "tar" sense of "pitch" from the puzzle. Derived from "pix" [dt. "Pech", "Teer"], the Latin word for the substance, this sort of "pitch" is also used in figurative senses such as "pitch dark".

The other senses of "pitch" as both a noun and a verb are completely unrelated to the "tar" sense and derive from the Middle English "pichen", which carried the general meaning of "to thrust, drive or fasten" [dt. "stecken", "treiben", "befestigen"] something, especially into the ground (still used when we "pitch" a tent). Subsequent senses of "pitch" as both a noun and a verb all involve notions of either "planting" or "throwing," although in some senses, such as musical "pitch" (which refers to the height or frequency at which sounds are delivered) the connection is very remote. A cricket "pitch" is so called because that's where the wickets are "pitched", i.e., set into the ground.

Given the tenuous connections between some uses of "pitch" and the original "thrust" meaning of the word, the baseball sense of "pitcher" is eminently logical by comparison.

Incidentally, the sort of "pitcher" used to hold and serve beverages comes from the late Latin word "picarium" and is unrelated to any of the "pitch" words above.

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Little Pitchers Have Big Ears

When adults are talking sex, money, or other adult topics in the presence of children, one might say "little pitchers have big ears", meaning that they don’t want the little ones to hear. The expression has to do with beverage pitchers with handles curved like human ears, not with baseball pitchers or painted pictures. What do you say when you wish you could cover the kids’ ears or make them leave the room?
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Friend and pitcher
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... "friend and pitcher" was quite widely known and used from the late eighteenth century on and even survived until the early twentieth century.
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"Pitcher" had the meaning of "chum", "crony", or "familiar acquaintance" — preferably, perhaps, said of, or to, one of the opposite sex.

The dating shows that the phrase was almost certainly taken from the sentimental song in the opera, which had the title "My Friend and Pitcher" and which was popular long after the opera had been forgotten:

My friend so rare, my girl so fair!
With such, what mortal can be richer?
Give me but these, a fig for care!
With my sweet girl, my friend and pitcher.
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potatory (W3)

Rum (W3)

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Molasses is a sticky syrup that still contains a significant amount of sugar. Sugar mill operators soon noticed that when it was mixed with water and left out in the sun it would ferment. By the 1650s this former waste product was being distilled into a spirit. In the English colonies it was called "Kill Devil" (from its tendency to cause a nasty hangover or its perceived medicinal power, take your choice) or "rumbullion" (origins uncertain), which was shortened over the years to our modern word "Rum". The French render this word as "rhum", while the Spanish call it "ron".
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SFTGFOP (W3)

"SFTGFOP" steht für "Special Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe": Ein echter Spitzentee. Diese Bezeichnung wird vorzugsweise für Darjeeling Second Flush verwendet, der weicher und tiefer schmeckt als First Flush. Normalerweise auch weniger herb, da weniger Gerbstoffe.

Tea (W3)

"tea" (n.) 1650s, "tay", also in early spellings "thea", "tey", "tee" and at first pronounced so as to rhyme with "obey"; the modern pronunciation predominates from mid-18c. But earlier in English as "chaa" (1590s), also "cha", "tcha", "chia", "cia". The two forms of the word reflect two paths of transmission:

"chaa" is from Portuguese "cha", attested in Portuguese from 1550s, via Macao, from Mandarin (Chinese) "ch'a" (cf "chai").

The later form, which became Modern English "tea", is via Dutch, from Malay "teh" and directly from Chinese (Amoy dialect) "t'e", which corresponds to Mandarin "ch'a".

The distribution of the different forms of the word in Europe reflects the spread of use of the beverage. The modern English form, along with French "thé", Spanish "te", German "Tee", etc., derive via Dutch thee from the Amoy form, reflecting the role of the Dutch as the chief importers of the leaves (through the Dutch East India Company, from 1610). Meanwhile, Russian "chai", Persian "cha", Greek "tsai", Arabic "shay", and Turkish "çay" all came overland from the Mandarin form.

First known in Paris 1635, the practice of drinking tea was first introduced to England 1644. Meaning "afternoon meal at which tea is served" is from 1738. Slang meaning "marijuana" (which sometimes was brewed in hot water) is attested from 1935, felt as obsolete by late 1960s. "Tea ball" is from 1895.

A NICE CUP OF “CHAR”

October 28th, 2008

The common term "a nice cup of char" for "a cup of tea" is thought to be derived from one of two possible sources. "Char" is most likely the Anglicisation of the Indian word for "tea" carried here from the early days of the British Empire and the trading activities of the East Indies Company. It origins may be from even further east as the word also sounds similar to the Chinese for "tea", "tcha".
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"My cup of tea"

Meaning: "Something or someone that one finds pleasing."

Origin
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"A cup of char" - Where does the expression ‘a cup of char’ (tea) come from?
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It is generally thought that "char" is an Anglicisation of the Indian word for "tea", but "char" is in fact quite a close version of the Chinese for "tea", "tcha". Tea was grown exclusively in China until the mid-19th century, and increasingly large amounts of it were sold to Britain from the early 18th century as it became a more and more popular drink.
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Idioms About Tea

By Simon Horobin, read by Mignon Fogarty,

Grammar Girl

February 18, 2016
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• tea-ladies
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• tea-hostess
• tea-master
• tea-tax
• tea-duty
• tea-broker
• Boston Tea Party (1773)
• Tea Party movement
• tea-user
• tea-dealer
• tea-pad
• tea-breakfasts
• tea-soirées
• tea-picnics
• tea-visits
• tea-dinners
• tea-fights
• tea-hound
• The light refreshment taken in the afternoon is still known as tea, ...
• particularly in Northern England this is now used to refer to the evening meal
• tea-bell
• the phrase cup of tea has come to stand for anything viewed positively
• today we are more likely to express our dislike for something by saying: "it’s not my cup of tea"
• console with tea and sympathy, a phrase taken from the title of a 1950s film
• tea-drinking
• tea-sot (sot is an archaic word for a drunken fool)
• tea-drunkard: "one who habitually drinks tea to such excess as to suffer from its toxic effects"
• tea-faced implied a "sallow or effeminate countenance like one addicted to tea-drinking"
• Over-consumption of tea can also be a source of flatulence, as suggested by the origins of the expression "More tea, vicar?" used to cover the embarrassment prompted by some social faux pas. This phrase is supposed to originate in an effort to fill an awkward silence caused by a vicar breaking wind at a tea-party: "More tea, vicar?" the genteel hostess asked in a deft attempt to save the clergyman’s blushes. But the vicar—unversed in the niceties of social etiquette—responded bluntly: "No thank you, it makes me fart."

British usage of "cha", "char" or "chai" to mean "tea"
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A Nice Cuppa Char

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TGFOP (W3)

"TGFOP" steht für "Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe": Ein sehr guter Blatt-Tee mit meistens blumigem, feinem Aroma.

Tippy Tea (T) (W3)

Als "Tip" werden die hellen Teile des Tees, also die Blattspitzen junger, zarter Teeblätter bezeichnet, die noch kein Chlorophyll gebildet haben, da sie unter einer dünnen Haut noch eingerollt und dadurch noch nicht dem Sonnenlicht ausgesetzt sind und sich beim Fermentieren deshalb nicht dunkel färben. "Tips" sind insofern Zeichen für hohe Qualität, da sie nur bei sehr jungen Trieben auftauchen und der Tee sehr sorgfältig gepflückt werden muß.

Toast, Toastmaster

tumbler (W2)

Craddock, Harry (Autor)
The Savoy Cocktail Book

During prohibition, liquor-deprived Americans would hop across the Atlantic for glamorous tea dances and cocktails in London. The place to be seen drinking "mixed drinks", as cocktails were known during the decadent 1920s and 1930s, was the "American Bar" at the Savoy. The barman at that time was Harry Craddock and he wrote "The Savoy Cocktail Book", which was first published in 1930. This new edition has been updated by Peter Dorelli, the new Head Barman at the Savoy. In it you will find recipes for Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Fixes and a whole lot more. Like his predecessors, Dorelli has invented a few cocktails himself and his latest is the Millennium-gin, Midori, Limoncello and mango juice. The book is illustrated with Deco drawings and will make a fabulous gift.
Dale Kneen

Hodgson, Charles (Autor)
History of Wine Words
An Intoxicating Dictionary of Etymology & Word Histories from Glass & Bottle

Kurzbeschreibung

• A stimulant at dinner parties, wine tastings and cocktail parties. Plus, as a gift, this book makes an excellent accompaniment to a housewarming bottle.
• "A great read." -Rod Phillips, author of A Short History of Wine
• "Certain to find a wide and grateful readership." -Anatoly Liberman, blogger The Oxford Etymologist and author of An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
• "Enlightening, engaging and essential." -John W. Fischer, author and Associate Professor at The Culinary Institute of America
• "Immensely enjoyable to read...well done" -Tom Wark, Fermentation wine blog and originator of American Wine Blog Awards
• "I was delighted...I learned a lot." -Debbie Trenholm, Accredited Sommelier & International Society of Wine Educators member

Wine's presence at our table is more than 8,000 years old and our conversation and use of words reflects this long familiarity. History of Wine Words is a collection of nearly 400 of the words you use when you enjoy wine, shop for wine or discuss wine with your friends; along with the origins and stories behind the words. The names of wines, grapes and vineyards are explored and bring to life fascinating vignettes from the development of our ancient wine traditions as well as illuminating our habits of speech.