antitea

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ tea

Adjective[edit]

antitea (comparative more antitea, superlative most antitea)

  1. Opposing tea (the drink).
    • 1980, Vance Oakley Packard, The hidden persuaders:
      The continued, admiring gloating over this act of rebellion in American schoolrooms, he concluded, has over the centuries imbued young Americans with an antitea attitude.
    • 1989, Page Smith, A new age now begins: a people's history of the American Revolution:
      Physicians, recruited to the antitea cause, stated that the drink weakened "the tone of the stomach, and therefore of the whole system, inducing' tremors and spasmodic affections."