🇬🇧 Teabag meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A teabag is a tiny paper bag that has dry tea leaves inside. You drop the teabag into a cup of hot water and let it sit for a little while. The water changes color and flavor as the tea leaves mix with it, turning the plain water into tasty tea. After the tea is strong enough, you take the teabag out and throw it away. Each teabag usually has just enough tea to make one drink for one person.

I left the teabag in too long and now my tea is darker than my Monday mood.

I dropped the teabag into cold water by accident, and it just sat there like, “Ma’am, this is not my workplace.”

I tried to reuse my teabag, but it was so tired the second cup tasted like disappointed water.

The teabag looked offended when I asked, “So… are you just leafy soup in a tiny pillow?”

Modern teabags were accidentally popularized in the early 1900s when a tea seller sent samples in small bags and people dunked the whole bag into hot water instead of emptying it!

She found a teabag on the counter and smiled. She held the teabag over a steaming cup and lowered it, watching the teabag open like a small sail. Tea colored the water warm brown. The teabag smelled faintly of mint. She lifted the teabag, pinched its string, breathed in the steam, and walked to the window feeling comforted.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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