antitea
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]antitea (comparative more antitea, superlative most antitea)
- 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."