Other forms: teaspoons
A teaspoon is the small spoon used for stirring a cup. A teaspoon of sugar.
As a measure it is five millilitres, which is why medicine is sometimes given in them. A teaspoon out of a drawer holds anything between three and seven, which is why cooks use proper spoons.
1nounteaspoonThe small spoon used for stirring a cup.
“A teaspoon of salt turned out to be a tablespoon.”
teaspoon is a spoon.
Tea plus spoon, from the spoon that came with a tea service.
From tea + spoon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA