tea fight

plural tea fights

1. UKslangSynonym of bun fight (“formal tea party”).

   Most of those unfortunate women are the victims of religious dementia. In early youth they were taught to butter scones at tea fights and sing hymns, and pray for the spiritual welfare of the poor Pagan, and they wind up by ministering to his carnal pleasures.

   1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 4

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   There followed, while the uniform was being prepared, an interval of pure delight, during which Bobby took brevet-rank as a "man" at the women-swamped tennis-parties and tea-fights of the village, and, I dare say, had his joining-time been extended, would have fallen in love with several girls at once.

   1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 134

   Synonyms: bun fight