7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
noun a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes
originFrom tea + time. Compare Saterland Frisian Teetied (“teatime”), West Frisian teetiid (“teatime”), Dutch theetijd (“teatime”), German Teezeit (“teatime”), Danish tetid (“teatime”), Swedish tetid (“teatime”), Icelandic tetími (“teatime”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0