(dated outside US) A vessel used to boil water for tea or other hot beverages.

(intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.

plural of teakettle

A creature in North American folklore, said to resemble a small stubby-legged dog with the ears of a cat, whose cry resembles a boiling teakettle.

plural of teakettler

simple past tense and past participle of teakettle

present participle of teakettle

(UK, slang, obsolete) A man employed in a small household, in charge of the coach, garden, and general work.

plural of teakettle groom

(idiomatic, US) Tumbling upside down. / (idiomatic, US) Frantically.