/ˈkʌpə/, /kapˈpaː/
OriginContraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).
- Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, colloquialA 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, an”
“1992, Machine Knitting Monthly, Maidenhead: Machine Knitting Monthly Ltd.,
Back home safely, I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine.”
- Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, colloquialWhatever 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.”
- alt-of, pronunciation-spellingPronunciation spelling of cup of.
“I just felt like I wanted another cuppa coffee and I told her so;[…]and before I could get just one more cuppa coffee it was seven-fifty!”
“And he orders a cuppa cawfee. “A cuppa cawfee and what else?” I says to him.”
““That′s a new line, isn′t it? Come up to my suite for a cuppa coffee.””
Formscuppas(plural) · cupper(alternative)
Source: Wiktionary