Rosie Lee

English 2025 February 18 Etymology thumb|A cup of Rosie Lee or tea. From en Rosie female name Lee surname, or female or male given name, chosen for its rhyme with en tea.n 6815157472 July 2023n Pronunciation en /ˌɹəʊzi ˈliː/ RP en /ˌɹoʊzi ˈli/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Rosie Lee.wav GA en iː 3 en Ros ie Lee Noun - + en Cockney rhyming slang originally military slang en tea#Noun (“(uncountable) a drink made by infusing dried leaves or buds of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis species) in hot water; (countable) a cup of this drink”) from early 20th c. en Rosie<q:ellipsis> Rosy<q:ellipsis> Thesaurus:tea en I’ll put the kettle on and make us a cup of Rosie Lee. US Mr. Oakroyd on t'Road III 133 "'Ow about a drop o' Rosie Lee?" said Mr. Joby Jackson. He was very found of this queer rhyming slang, most of which must be omitted from any record of his talk because it is incomprehensible to ordinary people. Even Mr. Oakroyd, was sometimes puzzled. But he was not bewildered, of course, by any mention of the famous Rosie, and he was more than ready for a drink of tea. en 24 February 1944 ‘They march better on tea’ H. R. Tompkins The Stirling News-Argus Stirling, Ont. H. R. Tompkins 64 26 5 https://archive.org/details/stirling-news-argus-february-1944/page/22/mode/1up 3 1007715092 Commandos march better on tea than on water. This fact has been demonstrated by an official test recently carried out in Great Britain. The "water platoons" made good use of their water bottles, but the "tea platoon" was the only one to finish the course intact. Which only goes to show that there must be something in the soldier's traditional liking for "a cup of rosie lee." en 1973 May Hobbs The Arts and Crafts Department Born to Struggle 1st American Plainfield, Vt. w:Daughters, Inc. 1975 133 https://archive.org/details/borntostruggle0000hobb/page/133/mode/1up 978-0-913780-10-7 'Sit in here a minute,' he says to them. 'I'll go and make the Rosy Lee.' When he had made the tea he brings it in, gets out the cards, and they start to play, carrying on until it is about half past three. en 2007 July Rhys Bowen [pseudonym; Janet Quin-Harkin] Her Royal Spyness New York, N.Y. Berkley Prime Crime, Berkley Books 2008 203 https://books.google.com/books?id=-x0XYGFUeEMC&pg=PA203 978-0-425-22252-2 “1 Nice cup of Rosie Lee?” he asked, using the Cockney tradition of rhyming slang. en 2008 Alf Townsend Return to War-torn London Blitz Boy: An Evacuee’s Story Osney Mead, Oxford, Oxfordshire ISIS Publishing 2009 101–102 https://archive.org/details/blitzboyevacuees0000town_q6f3/page/102/mode/1up 978-0-7531-8336-6 They all nodded sagely in agreement and carried on puffing away on their fags and drinking their Rosie Lees. en 2016 Chris Graham; with Wendy Holden Spring 2015: Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia London Sphere 10 https://archive.org/details/fiveminutesofama0000grah/page/10/mode/1up 978-0-7515-6541-6 Seated at our map-covered dining table, Vicks and I drank umpteen cups of Rosy Lee as we worked out the best route to take me across seven provinces in Canada and through twenty-six US states, following the coastline as much as possible. Alternative forms en Rosie Lea rosie lee Rosey Lee Rosy Lee Translations synonym of tea tea References Further reading tea zakhypi rosie (lea) n en eponyms noun-noun compound nouns en Tea