cuppa
/ˈkʌp.ə/
cuppa noun: a cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink). Also the pronunciation spelling of cup of.
Noun
cuppa (plural cuppas)
- A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
- I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?
- […] we covered the hundred yards to the lawn where the tea table awaited us. […] Only Bobbie was present when we arrived at the trough. Wilbert and Phyllis were presumably still in the leafy glade, and Mrs Cream, Bobbie said, worked in her room every afternoon on her new spine-freezer and seldom...1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III
- Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
- Similes were not my cuppa, anyway. My classmates tended to overload their writing with them (all-time record: six in one paragraph) and they stuck out like violins in a rock tune.2001, Gabrielle Bauer, Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer, page 210
Also used as
cuppa is also the pronunciation spelling of cup of.
Forms of cuppa
| plural | cuppas |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cupper |
Origin of cuppa
Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).
Words formed from cuppa
Questions about cuppa
- What does cuppa mean?
- Cuppa means a cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
- What part of speech is cuppa?
- Cuppa is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cuppa?
- Cuppa is pronounced /ˈkʌp.ə/.
- What is the plural of cuppa?
- The plural of cuppa is cuppas.
Words near cuppa in the dictionary
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