twankay

English

Alternative forms

• Twankay, Twankey

Etymology

From Chinese 屯溪 (Túnxī, “Tunxi district, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, China”).

Noun

twankay (countable and uncountable, plural twankays)

1. (archaic) A variety of green tea.
   • 1827 December, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany‎^[1], volume 24, page 798:

     Hyson, including superior Twankay, at 3s.

   • 1837, “On Dietetic Chemistry”, in Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts‎^[2], volume 3, page 252:

     The varieties of green tea are, twankay, and several kinds of hyson: the former is a coarse article.

   • 1856, Leone Levi, Annals of British Legislation‎^[3], volume 1, page 18:

     There is now scarcely any bohea or twankay imported (at least under those names) to what there was formerly.