Rosy Lee

A form of Rosie Lee — Synonym of tea (“(uncountable) a drink made by infusing dried leaves or buds of the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) in hot water; (countable) a cup of this drink”)

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounRosy Lee (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of Rosie Lee (“tea”).

    '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.

    1973, May Hobbs, “The Arts and Crafts Department”, in Born to Struggle, 1st American edition, Plainfield, Vt.: Daughters, Inc., published 1975, →ISBN, page 133
    1 more example

    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.

    2016, Chris Graham, with Wendy Holden, “Spring 2015: Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England”, in Five Minutes of Amazing: My Journey Through Dementia, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 10

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
assamblack teagreen teagunpowder tearosie leetea

Origin

From Rosy (“female name”) + Lee (“surname, or female or male given name”), a variant of Rosie Lee.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Rosy Lee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rosy%20Lee

MLA

“Rosy Lee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rosy%20Lee. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Rosy Lee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Rosy%20Lee.

Source: Rosy Lee on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.