bubble tea
Sweetened tea with milk and tapioca pearls, often including fruit juice, syrup and…Sweetened tea with milk and tapioca pearls, often including fruit juice, syrup and other ingredients.
» Mary's favorite drink is bubble tea.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)Sweetened tea with milk and tapioca pearls, often including fruit juice, syrup and other ingredients.
Perlentee
чай с ша́рикамиčaj s šárikami, пе́нистый чайpénistyj čaj, жемчу́жный чайžemčúžnyj čaj
Examples
13 sentencesMary's favorite drink is bubble tea.
Has Tom tried bubble tea before?
Where did bubble tea come from?
Want to get some bubble tea?
Would you treat me to bubble tea later?
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
A phono-semantic match for boba tea (see that entry for more), ultimately from Cantonese 波A phono-semantic match for boba tea (see that entry for more), ultimately from Cantonese 波霸 (bo1 baa3, “busty woman; tapioca pearl(s)”). The match is from the supposed resemblance of the tapioca pearls to bubbles.
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Forms
plural: bubble teas| Singular | bubble tea |
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regular
Synonyms
5 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable