Teakettle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtiˌkɛtəl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Teakettle is a noun meaning (intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
Meaning
(intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
More Meanings
- (dated outside US) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.
Example Sentences
The Carolina wrens love it too, and they were teakettling away around me.
Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove.
Phœbe and the fire that boiled the teakettle were equally bright, cheerful, and efficient, in their respective offices.
They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.
Word Forms
- teakettles
- tea kettle
- tea-kettle
- teakettling
- teakettled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tea-kettle, teapot, tea pot, kettle, tea urn, teabowl.
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