Tae

n.

Heard in Fermanagh, Carlow and Donegal

A warm cup of tea, a staple of Irish hospitality.

In use

Make us a cup a tae before the frost gets into me bones!

Posh English

Do make us a cup of tea before the chill thoroughly penetrates my frame.

Same phrase, other counties

  • Tae bagA tea bag, that is to say the small porous sachet of leaves one steeps to make a cup of…
  • Wake aul taeExtremely weak, watery tea that has barely seen a tea bag.
  • A cup of tay will crown yaA cup of tea will refresh or revive you.
  • Cup of scaldA very strong, dark, or heavily stewed cup of tea.
  • TayTea as pronounced by the Irish, comes from the Gaelic word tae, pronounced tay.
  • Wet the teaTo brew or prepare a pot of tea.