tea things (tethingz)

pl. The articles of the tea-service taken collectively; more especially, the tea-pot, tea-cups, etc. Compare tea set, tea -service. [Colloq.] S'pose the tea - things all on 'em was solid silver, wa'n't they? Yeh didn't ask them, did yeh? H. B. Stowe , Oldtown, p. 326. Teatin (tē'a-tin), n. Same as The at in . teatisht (të'tish), a. [Also teetish , and, with diff. term., teety , tetty ; origin uncertain; perhaps orig. applied to an infant fretful for the breast; teat + -ish1.] Peevish.