What on earth is a Tea-towel ?

Answer 1

It's the thing your girlfriend should've folded into a 'cat's tail' for whipping and chased you around the house with until you remember where the kitchen was. It's basically a thick linen cloth used for drying hands or D I S H E S....kept in the K I T C H E N.

Answer 2

Unless it's some kind of perverse sexual act between two men and a donkey that I am (thankfully) quite unaware of, I do believe that a Tea Towel is a small towel, about the size of a hand towel, but not as thick, prodominantly used for the drying up. I am unaware as to the reason behind the name 'tea towel', as surly a much more discriptive name would be drying up towel!

Answer 3

Dish Towel

Answer 4

It's a cloth for drying dishes. The term tea-towel originates from the Victorian era when morning and afternoon tea were the 'in' thing and tea-towels were used to dry the tea cups and plates.

Answer 5

A towel used after Tea, for drying the washing up, { for those without a dishwasher }

Answer 6

Tea towells are a drying cloth about half metre by 460cm made from cotton and are used to dry the scrubbed dishes in a kitchen~~

Answer 7

A cloth made from Cotton or Linen about a foot wide and 18 inches long. Often they have a print on them sometimes humorous. Originally kept just to dry tea cups plates and saucers. This was when tea was a very expensive item and the cups were made of bone china and stained easily.

Answer 8

Noun 1. tea towel - a towel for drying dishes
dish towel
towel - a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping

Answer 9

tea towels are about the size of hand towels, usually with a uniqe design or picture on them. I bought several in England

Answer 10

A towel you drink tea with.